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THE 


PROCESS 


OF    THE 


PILGRIM  GOOD-INTENT. 


IN 


JACOBINICAL  TIMES.. 


And  be  thefe  juggling  fiends  no  more  believ'd, 
That  palter  with  us  in  a  double  fenfe; 
That  keep  the  word  of  prcmife  to  our  car, 
And  break  it  to  our  hope. 

Shakspeare, 


NEW-YORK: 

Printed  from  the  third  London  Edition,  for  C.  Davjs, 
No,  167  Water-ftreet. 


1802. 


PREFACE. 


ilMONG  the  various  caufes  which  may  be 
afligned  for  the  extraordinary  corruption  of  the 
human  race,  one  of  the  moft  powerful  has,  per- 
haps, in  all  ages,  been  the  perverfion  of  language. 
I>kl  Vict  fhrik  abroad  unvciiecl  in  rier  native  de- 
formity, few,  whofe  minds  were  not  under  the 
immediate  influence  of  fome  impetuous  paffion, 
would  have  fufficient  boldnefs  to  meet  the  terrors 
of  her  afpcdfc;   few  could  refolve  to  incur  the 
infamy  which  would  inevitably  cover  thofe  who 
appeared  in  her  train.     To  fucfc,  therefore,  as 
would  feize  the  fatal  pleafures  which  {he  boafla 
her  power  to  offer,  no  expedient  can  occur  by 
which  they  may  more  equally  evade  the  re- 
proaches uf  -ihcii  uwn  confeiences,  and  the  juft 
cenfure  of  the  world,  than  to  invent  a  new  voca- 
bulary;  to  call  evil  good,  and  good  evil;  and 
when,  by  the  „fe  of  thefe  falfe  terms,  they  have 
impofed  falfe  ideas  on  the  credulity  of  an  incon- 
siderate multitude,  they  find  it  eafy  to  feduce  in'o 
a  participation  in  their  crimes,  many  a  heart,  fa 


IV  PREFACE. 

which,  had  virtue  been  fupported  by  principle,  it 
would  have  refifted  every  aflault. 

But  how  extenfive  foever  were  the  mifchiefs 
which  in  former  days  proceeded  from  this  fource, 
it  might  have  been  hoped  that  time  would  long 
fince  have  brought  fome  remedy  for  the  evil.  It 
was  eafy  to  deceive  men  whofe  faculties  were 
buried  in  that  credulous  ignorance  which  charac- 
terifed  the  darker  ages;  but  now,  when  civiliza- 
tion has  roufed  us  from  ourfavage  ftate,  and  when 
the  glorious  light  of  the  Gofpel  of  Truth  has 

fpread  tlie  beams  of   the    uurcfl:  niui  alley  uvci  our 

favoured  hemifphere,  who  could  fuppofe  it  poflible 
that  Faliehoo  *^ould  not  only  maintain,  but  ex- 
tend her  empire?  Unhappily,  as  our  means  of 
obtaining  knowledge  have  increafed,  the  fubtilty 
of  our  deceivers  has  increafed  alfo;  and  it  may  be 
doubted  whether  the  opinions  of  mankind  refpecl:- 
ing  the  true  nature  of  virtue  and  vice,  were  ever 
more  loft  and  confounded  at  any  former  period, 
than  we  now  behold  them  in  thefe  latter  days, 
among  thofe  who  moll  confidently  toatt  rhe  fupe- 
rior  illumination  of  their  minds. 

Our  great  progenitor  Adam,  could  alTert,  of 
thofe  obje&s  of  the  vifible  creation  which  ap- 
peared in  review  before  him, 

I  nam'd  them  as  they  pafsM,  and  underftood 

Their  nature*-.  «**•*■ 


PREFACE.  V 

But  who,  "  of  men  fince  bom,  his  Cons,"  can 
affirm  that  he  underftands  the  nature  of  any  object 
in  the  moral  world,  if  it  be  only  known  to  him  by 
the  name  afligned  to  it  in  the  fchool  of  Philo- 
sophism?  The  language  of  Nimrod  himfelf 
would  not  be  lefs  intelligible  to  our  ears,  than  the 
phrafeology  introduced  by  thefe  modern  teachers 
is  become  to  our  fenfe ;  and  the  ftate  of  fociety 
was  not  mere  completely  changed  by  the  confu- 
fion  of  tongues  in  his  age,  than  we  have  already 
feen  it  in  our  own,  by  that  univerfal  confufion  of 
idt^s  which  prevails  an  the  neighbouring  conti- 
nent; where  every  fpecies  of  tyranny  and  impiety 

— Vult  libertas  did  mera,  veraque  virtus.  hor. 

In  this  more  fortunate  country,  indeed,  whilffc 
through  the  protection  of  a  gracious  Providence, 
the  valour  of  our  fleets  and  armies  has  repelled  all 
open  aflailants  from  our  fhores,  maintaining  us  Hill 
in  the  pofFeflion  of  our  independence  and  freedom, 
the  machinations  of  thofe  fecret  and  more  dangerous 
enemies,  who  nave  lutein  iu  undermine  our  reli- 
gion, have  been  refitted  hitherto  with  equal  firm- 
nefs;  and  we  flili  retain  undiaken  the  Church  and 
the  Conftitution,  trammiued  to  us  by  die  wifdom 
of  our  anchors.  While  other  nations,  there- 
fore,  vainly  pride  themfelves  in  the  fan-e  they 
have  acquired,  by  giving  birth  to  thofe  pernicious 


VI  PREFACE. 

writers  who  have  diffeminated  infidelity,  and  added 
new  attractions  to  vice,  let  it  be  our  more  dignified 
boaft,  that,  in  this  land,  no  foe  to  our  holy  faith 
has  queftioned  the  authority  of  any  of  her  doo* 
trines,  which  fome  champion  of  fuperior  fhength 
has  not  arifen  to  defend;  that,  among  us,  the 
weight  of  talents  is  thrown  into  the  fcale  of 
truth. 

Conviction,  however,  will  rarely  reclaim  the 
wilful  promoters  of  error;  though  confuted,  they 
are  not  filenced;  though  repulfed,  they  return 
with  redoubled  cooh<lcu^  tn  rl-ip  fifiault;  and 
while  the  teachers  of  falfe  morality  are  employing 
in  this  iiland,  to  confound  our  principles,  the  fame 
arts  by  which,  in  other  European  kingdoms,  they 
have  ib  fatally  prevailed,  it  becomes  the  duty  of 
every  man  who  is  fenfible  of  the  importance  of 
thoie  religious  and  political  truths,  which,  united, 
form  the  great  palladium  of  our  ftate,  to  exert  his 
utmoft.  efforts  in  refilling  the  attacks,  and  expofing 
the  wiles,  of  onr  arch  enemy,  Philo  soph  ism. 

Quanto  ilk  magis  forma  s  fe  vertet  in  omnes, 

Tanto,  nate,  iragis  contende  tenacia  vincla. 

VIRO. 

While,  with  the  word  defigns,  the  name  o* 
every  moral  virtue  is  afligned  to  its  oppofite  vice, 
the  unwary  are  led  into  danger,  even  by  the  good- 


PREFACE.  Vll 

nefs  of  their  own  intentions.  Reflection  on  the 
ajts  thus  ufed  to  impofe  on  their  credulity,  has 
fuggefted  the  idea  of  the  following  pages.  Mr. 
John  Bun y an  is  an  author  fo  generally  known, 
that  it  can  fcarcely  be  necefTary  to  make  any  pre- 
liminary obfervations  on  the  quaint  allegory  which 
is  taken  as  the  ground-work  of  the  prefent  per- 
formance. The  pilgrim  Christen  was  the 
companion  of  our  childhood,  till  die  refinements 
of  modern  education  banifhed  him  from  our  nur- 
feries.  He  ftill  retains  his  place  on  the  {helves  of 
our  grandmothers ;  from  which  high  ftation  may 
he  look  down  with  paternal  regard  upon  the  la- 
bours of  this  his  defcendant,  who,  by  the  careful 
ufe  of  his  itinerary,  has  accomplished  a  progrefs 
fimilar  to  his  own,  even  in  Jacobinical  times.' 


THE  PROGRESS 

OF   THE 

PILGRIM  GOOD-INTENT, 

«V.  SCc.  5Cc. 


IT  was  lately  my  chance  to  walk  alone  in  the 
wiklernefs  of  this  world,  where  I  faw  many 
things  which  were  grievous  and  doleful  to  my 
eyes,  and  where  I  heard  of  many  more  which  did 
even  make  my  hair  to  ftand  on  end ;  for  behold  ! 
the  earth  was  filled  with  violence,  and  the  number 
of  the  faithlefs  ones  was  increafed.  Now,  as  I 
mufed  thereon,  and  was  wearied  through  the 
length  of  my  way ;  at  the  la  ft,  my  eyes  grew 
heavy,  and  I  laid  me  down  to  fleep :  and  in  my 
fleep  I  dreamed ;  and  methought  I  was  in  a  wide 
plain,  where  many  were  paffing  to  and  fro;  and 
after  a  time  there  came  towards  me  an  old  gentle- 
man, whom,  when  I  faw  him,  I  knew  to  be 
Sagacity  ;  the  fame  who  had  formerly  recounted 
to  one  who  had  vifited  thofe  parts  the  adventures 
of  certain  pilgrims,  in  their  road  from  the  city  of 
Deduction  to  the  Celeftial  Country:  (o  when 
he  accofted  me,  I  was  glad;  and,  after  the  firil: 
B 


(       2       ) 

greetings  were  part,  I  began  to  fpeak  with  him  of 
the  pilgrim  Christian;  alfo  of  Christiana 
his  wife,  with  her  children  and  companions ;  and 
of  all  the  dangers  an4  difficulties  which  had  en- 
Countered  them  in  their  journey :  and  I  found  it 
fome  folace  to  my  thoughts,  which  had  been  occu- 
pied with  the  deeds  of  ungodly  men,  to  turn  them 
to  the  remembrance  of  the  righteous  of  former 
clays,  and  of  the  glorious  rewards  which  had 
attended  fuch  at  the  laft. 

Now  as  1  knew  that  Christian  and  Chris- 
tiana had  left  behind  them  four  fons,  and  that 
to  thofe  funs  alfo  children  had  been  born,  I 
afked  Mr.  -Sagacity  whether  any  of  their 
lineage  were  yet  remaining  Unto  this  day  ?  and 
whether,  if  there  were,  they  were  mindful  of 
the  good  example  which  their  anceftors  had  fet 
them? 

«    The  family  hath   multiplied   exceedingly," 
anfwered  he,  "  and  all  who  have  belonged  to  it, 
«'  ever  fince  the  days  of  Christian,  have  held 
"  thcmielves  obliged  to  fet  out  on  the  fame  pil- 
«<  grimage,   which  was  fo  happily   performed  by 
««  that  good  man :   yea,  though  fome  of  them  have. 
"  perifhed  by  the  way,  yet  there  have  been  many 
"  who  have  accomplifhed  their  appointed  coi 
"  and  who  are  now  partakers  in  thofe  gloriui. 
"  wards  which  are  laid  up  for  all  faithful 
f  in  the  Cdejiial  City:1 


\ 


(  3  ) 
':  r  am  "glad,"  quoth  1,  «  to  hear  of  their  good 
"fuccefs;  yet  it  grieves  me  that  there  mould 
"  have  been  any,  among  the  defendants  of  fuch 
"  a  man  as  Christian,  who  have  not  walked 
"  worthy  of  the  vocation  whereunto  they  were 
"  called." 

"  Why  truly/'  replied  the  old  gentleman,  "  you 
"  have  lefs  caufe  to    wonder  that  fome    mould 
"  have   forfaken   the  right   path,    than   that   any 
"  mould   have   kept   on   the*   courfe  in  it  un~ 
"fhaken;   for  though,  in  the  time  of  Chris- 
(  tian,  the  road  of  the  pilgrims  was  both  dif- 
"  ricult  and  perilous,  the  dangers  which  befet  \t 
"  now   are  much  more  numerous,  and  rhe  a!- 
"  lurements  to  turn  afide  from  it  iefs  eafc  to  he 
"  refilled. n 

"  I  can  fcarcely  think  that  poffible,"  anfwered 
I;  "  for,  befides  that  tho  things  which  happened 
"  unto  Christian  mud  have  ferved  both  for 
«  enfample  and  for   warning   to   all   fucceeding 
"  pilgrims,  I  imagined  that  *11  the  moil:  formid-' 
"  able  enemies  of  their  way  had  long  fince  been 
■  removed.     Did  not  the  foul  fiend,  Apollyon, 
"fpread  his  wings,    when   he   felt   the    edge   of 
Christian's   fword,   and   flee   to   the  place 
"  from  which  he  came?  Did  not  Mr.  Valiant- 
a-TRUTH  defeat   the   robbers; 
n*  the   giants   Grim,    Maul,    and    Si 
'  ^od,    and  above  all  that  fierce  and  terrible 


(    4    )  - .--*• 

€<  giant,  the  giant  Despair,  cut  off  by  the 
•'hand  of  Mr.  Great-heart?  Truly  you 
"  will  not  eaiily  perfuade  me  that  any  new  foes, 
w  who  may  in  latter  times  have  arifen  to  an- 
V  noy  the  pilgrims,  can  have  equal  power  with 
m  thofe  I  have  named  to  work  their  final  deftruc- 
«  tion." 

At  that  Mr.  Sagacity  fmiled,  but  withal  he 
/hook  his  head.  "  There  are  many,"  faid  he, 
**  even  among  the  pilgrims  themfelves,  who  reafon 
u  as  you  do,  and  accordingly  fet  out  on  their 
•'  courfe  with  much  confidence;  but  io  much 
•'  the  lefs  as  they  fear  the  dangers  which  await 
u  them,  fo  much  the  more  eafily  are  they  brought 
*'  to  perdition.  If,  however,  you  defire  any 
«c  proof  of  what  I  fay,  you  may  quickly  fee  and 
**  judge  for  yourfelf:  for  turn  your  eyes  yon- 
««  Jer" — And  as  he  fr*  ke,  he  pointed  with  his 
hand — "  Do  you  perceive  that  young  man, 
u  whais  croffing  the  plain  with  fuch  a  cheerful 
*{  demeanour,  and  is  Speeding  towards  the  wicket 
"gate?" 

««  Very  plainly,"  quoth  1 ;  "  there  are  many 
"  whofe  fteps  tend  the  fame  wa^,  but  the  youth 
"  in  white  garments  far  outgoes  the  reft;  and  as 
*4;  I  fee,  he  hath  already  fafely  pa  fled  the  flough 
'<  of  Defpond,  and  hath  almoft  reached  the  gate." 
*'  Keep  him  in  your  view,  then,"  rejoined  my 
companion,  "  and  obferve  what  {hall  befal  him 


(    5    i 

(i  on  his  pilgrimage.  He  is  of  the  family  of 
"  Christian;  fo  that  for  the  fake  of  his  fa- 
"  thers,  you  will  take  the  greater  intereft  in  his 
"  adventures :  and  when  next  we  meet,  you  (hall 
"  tell  me  whether  the  way  has  proved  lefs  perilous 
"  to  him  than  it  did  of  old  time  to  thofe  who  trod 
u  it  before  him." 

When  he  had  thus  fpoken,  Mr.  Sagacity 
took  his  leave  of  me,  and  I,  pleafed  with  the 
opportunity  of  beholding  the  progrefs  of  a  youth, 
with  whofe  countenance  and  deportment  I  was 
fo  greatly  taken,  continued  to  watch  him,  and  that 
wkh  more  attention  than  ar  firlt. 

Then  I  perceived  that  he  had  in  his  hand  ti 
book,  like  unto  that  which  Evangelist  had 
given  to  the  pilgrim  Christian;  and  as  he 
walked,  he  fometimes  read  therein,  and  fome- 
times  he  fixed  his  eyes  on  the  mining  light  which 
was  over  the  gate,  towards  which  he  bent  his 
courfe.  Alfo  it  was  not  long  before  he-  reached 
the  gate;  and  being  at  it,  he  put  forth  his  hand 
and  knocked.  Now  I  faw  not  that  any  arrows 
were  (hot  at  him  from  the  caftle  of  Bee lzeevb, 
neither  did  the  terrible  dog  come  forth  to  alTauIt 
him  ;  but  the  porter,  who  was  named  Good- 
will, quickly  opened  the  gate  unto  him,  and 
demanded  of  him  who  he  was,  and  whence  he 
came. 

b  a- 


r  6  ) 

"  My  name,"  anfwered  the  young  man,  <;  Is 
"  Good-intent  ;  lam  of  the  lineage  of  Chris- 
■'  tian,  being  indeed  the  great-grandfon  of  his 
"  firft-born  Matthew,  who  took  Mercy  to 
*•  wife:  I  come  from  the  town  of  Sincerity, 
"  and  I  am  on  my  way  towards  the  Celejiial 
"  City." 

«'  Then,"  faid  Good-will,  "  thou  comeft  of 
*4  a  good  parentage,  and  thy  countenance  agreeth 
"  thereto?  for  I  have  feen  many  of  thy  race, 
"  who  have  travelled  this  way  before  thee;  and 
**  truly  thou  doft  much  refemble  them.      Enter 

*  freely,  young  man,  and  proceed  on  thy  jour- 
"ney;  but  walk  warily,  left  thy  further  pro- 
"  grefs  prove  not  ani'werable  to  thy  good  be- 
"  ginning." 

41  I  have  little  fear,"  faid  the  young  pilgrim, 
Al  that  I  {hall  mifs  my  road." 

"Be  not  too  confident,"  faid  Good-will ; 
**  thou  mayeft  find  it  more  difficult  to  conti- 
"  nue  in  the  right  way  than  thou  art  yet  aware 

*  of." 

Good-intent. — M  But  I  have  a  map  of  the 
M  /cad,  the  fame  which  was  ufed  by  Mr.  Great- 
*;  heart  in  his  journey;  and  I  have  alfo  been 
*<  farther  inftru&ed  by  my  father  Precept  and 
"  my  mother  Example,  who  are  themfelvcs 
4<  both  gone  to  the  Celejiial  City,  and  would 
44  gladly  have  taken  me  thither  with  ihem,  bur 


(    7     ) 

U  that  the  meflenger  who  was  fent  to  call  them 
"  forbad  them  to  (lay  for  me." 

Good-will. — "  That  map  is  not  without  its 
"  ufe;  yet  it  is  of  tefs  value  now  than  formerly 
"  it  was,  by  reafon  of  the  changes  which  of  late 
"  have  taken  place." 

Good-intent. — "  Will  you  not  tell  me, 
"  Sir,  what  changes  have  occurred,  that  I  may 
"  learn  to  avoid  fuch  dangers  as  I  now  am  unpre- 
«  pared  for?" 

Good-will. — "  I  would  gladly,  young  man, 
"  render  thee  the  fervice  for  which  thou  deft  peti- 
"  tion ;  but  it  is  not  permitted  me  to  tell  pilgrims 
"  beforehand  what  temptations  are  prepared  for 
"  them;  for  where  there  is  no  conteft,  there  can 
"  be  no  victory ;  and  without  victory,  there  can 
"  be  no  reward." 

Then  the  young  man  flood  mufing  for  a 
while:  but  at  laft  again  breaking  filence,  "  You 
"have  greatly  terrified  me,  Sir,"  faid  he;  "I 
"  thought  I  had  fufficiently  prepared  myfelf 
"  againfr.  all  the  dangers  I  could  encounter:  but 
11  if  there  be  others  in  my  way,  which  are  dill 
"  unknown  to  me,  I  may  be  enfnared  when  I  am 
"  the  leaft  aware,  and  may  fall  never  to  rife  again. 
"  Is  there  no  counfellor  to  whom  1  may  refort  in 
**  cafes  of  extreme  perplexity?" 

"  Then,"  faid  Good-will,  "  thou  needed 
"  not  feek  for  a  counfellor,  when,  as  I  fee,  thou 


(     8     ) 

•*  haft  the  bed  of  counsellors  in  thine  hand; 
"  Let  that  book  be  thy  conftant  ftudy  and  me* 
"  ditation.  Remember  what  certain  afTurances 
M  thou  haft  that  it  came  to  thee  from  Him  who* 
ft  cannot  lie:  remember  that  it  contains  every 
"  thing  which  it  is  neceffary  for  thee  to  know 
"  for  thy  foul's  peace.  "W  henever  thou  findeft 
"  thyfelf  in  any  ftrait,  read  in  that  book,  and 
"  it  fliall  be  taught  thee  what  it  behoveth  thee 
"  to  do ;  for,  though  the  things  which  are  come 
"  upon  the  earth  feem  ftiange  unto  men,  yet  were 
"  they  from  the  beginning  forefeen  and  provided' 
"  againft  by  Him,  whofe  eye  beholdeth  at  one 
"  glance  all  time  and  all  fpace.  Since  His  will 
"  is  not  that  any  fliould  peri  111,  His  mercy  will 
"  at  all  times  uphold  in  His  paths  the  goings 
".of  thofe  who  fincerely  feek  to  know  and 
"  to  perform  his  pleafure ;  nor  fhall  any  tempta- 
"  tion  befal  fuch,  but  that  with  the  temptation 
"  He  will  alio  make  a  way  to  efcape,  that 
"  they  may  be  able  to  bear  it.  Whatever  may 
"  happen  to  thee,  therefore,  preferve  that  book, 
"  though  it  be  at  the  hazard  of  thy  life;  for 
"  if  once  thou  fufFer  it  to  be  taken  from  thee, 
"  thou  art  at  t*e  mercy  of  thy  enemies;  thou 
"  wilt  lofe,  not  the  force  only,  but  even  the 
"inclination,  to  repel  their  attacks;  and  thou 
"  wilt  have  forfeited  all  claim  to  the  protection 
"of  Him,   whofe  laws  thou  haft  defpifed,  and 


(    9    ) 

"  whofe    covenant    thou    haft   caft   behind   thy 
"  back.'* 

Then  I  faw  in  my  dream  that  the  young  man 
was  much  comforted  by  the  difcourfes  of  Good- 
will; and  having  thanked  him  for  his  advice-, 
and  promifed  always  to  bear  it  in  his  mind,  he 
proceeded  on  his  way  :  and  as  he  went,  he  read 
in  his  book;  and  after  a  while,  having  clofed 
it,  and  put  it  in  his  bofom,  he  began  to  medi- 
tate on  its  contents.  His  attention,  however, 
was  foon  diverted;  for,  as  he  ftill  walked  with 
a  very  quick  pace,  he  prefently  overtook  a  com- 
pany of  pilgrims,  who  were  travelling  more  lei- 
furely  the  fame  way  with  himfelf;  and  as  it 
chanced,  he  knew  mod  of  them  bv  fight;  for 
they  had  formerly  been  his  neighbours,  and  in- 
deed were  of  the  beft  quality  in  all  that  country. 
There  were  the  Lord  Inconsiderate,  the 
Lord  Party-spirit,  and  the  Lord  Love- 
changej  alfo  Mr.  Curiosity,  Mr.  Cre- 
dulity, Mr.  Hot-head,  Mr.  Hate-con- 
troul,  and  Mr.  Discontent.  Now  Mi. 
Curiosity  and  Mr.  Credulity,  in  parti- 
cular, had  long  been  known  to  Good-intent, 
whofe  townfmen  they  were;  and  he  was  more 
glad  of  the  meeting  becaufe  it  was  commonly 
reported  that  Mr.  Credulity  was  akin  to- 
Faithful,  who  had  fo  bravely  fufFered  at  Va- 
nity Fair:    "  And,"  quoth  he  to  himfelf,  "  if  our' 


(       10      ) 

"  fathers  found  it  fo  pleafant  and  fo  profitable  to 
'•'  go  on  their  pilgrimage  together,  why  may  not 
V  Mr.  Credulity  and  I  be  in  no  lefs  a  degree 
"  comforts  to  each  other?" — So  they  went  on  their 
way  together:  and  Good-intent  flackened  his 
pace,  becaufe  his  new  companions  were  unwilling 
to  walk  fo  fa  ft  as  he  did. 

So  I  law  in  my  dream  chat  they  fell  into  much 
talk  one  with  the  other  concerning  the  country 
from  which  they  came  j  and  after  that,  they  pro- 
ceeded to  fpeak  of  trie  way  wherein  they  were 
then  walking. 

Then  faid  Mr.  Discontent,  "I  like  not 
u  this  way  ;  I  find  it  rough  and  very  grievous 
"  unto  me.'* 

"  That  which  offends  me  in  it,"  faid  Mr.: 
Hate-controul,  "  is  that  the  walls  on  either 
"  fide  are  io  high  as  quite  to  fhut  out  from 
u  us  all  profpeel  of  the  country.  I  like  to  walk 
%i  in  an  open  plain,  where  I  may  turn  at  plea- 
sure to  the  right  hand  or  to  the  left;  and 
"  not  to  be  confined  within  a  narrow  path  like 
"  this." 

*'  Before  we  have  proceeded  much  further," 
faid  my  Lord  Love-change,  "  we  may  chance 
"  to  find  fome  other  road  by  which  we  may 
"  purfue  our  journey  more  pleafantly." 

"  But  it  is  dangerous,"  faid  GoodJntent, 
"  to  turn  aiide.  into  any  ftrange  path  ;   feeing  t 


(  II  ) 

**.  the  Lord  of  that  Celejlial  Country,  whither  we 
"  are  bound,  has  expre&ly  appointed  unto  us  this, 
"  in  the  which  we  are  now  walking,  as  the  only 
*i  one  by  which  we  may  reach  his  kingdom  in 
*<  rarely." 

"  It  might  indeed  be  dangerous,"  faid  Mr. 
Curiosity,  "  to  proceed  far  in  any  other 
*i  road;  but  there  could  furely  be  no  harm  in 
"  venturing  a  little  way  in  one  which  might 
"  appear  to  us  more  pleafant  than  this;  fince,  if 
t(  we  faw  that  after  a  while  it  took  any  wrong  di- 
*.*  redtion,  we  might  fo  eafrly  turn  back,  and  re- 
*'  gain  the  path  we  had  forfaken." 

u  You  are  in  the  right,"  faid  the  Lord  Incon- 
siderate. 

"  For  my  part,"  faid  the  Lord  Party-spirit, 
"'*  it  is  indifferent  to  me  in  what  kind  of  road  I 
"  travel,  fo  long  as  I  can  have  the  company  of 
"  my  friends." 

"  It  is  alfo  indifferent  to  me,"  faid  Good- 
intent,  "  whether  my  path  be  rough  or  fmooth; 
"  for  my  thoughts  are  fo  entirely  fixed  on  that 
"..glorious  place,  which  I  hope  will  be  the  end  of 
*  my  journey,  that  the  little  unevennefles  of  the 
"  way  can  in  no  degree  diminifh  the  pleafure 
"  which  I  take  in  meditating  on  fuch  a  fubject; 
id  as  for  the  high  walls,  which  crTend  Mr. 
"  Hate  controul,  I  had  not  till  he  fpdfce, 
u  fo  much  as  taken  notice  of  them;  nor  can  I 


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(       12      ) 

u  confider  them  as  any  hardship,  while  they  do 
"  but  confine  me  within  that  road,  in  the  which 
"  it  is  my  moil:  earned  defire  to  continue." 

"  But,"  faid  the  Lord  Inconsiderate,  "  we 
"  cannot  always  be  thinking  of  the  end  of  our 
"  journey;  and,  provided 'we  know  that  in  the 
"  courfe  of  our  pilgrimage  we  (hall  be  fure  to  get 
"  there  at  laft,  I  fee  no  harm  in  feeking  amufe- 
"  ments  by  the  way." 

"  I  have  not  hitherto  found  myfelf  in  any  want 
"  of  amufements,"  faid  Good-intent;  for 
"  though  my  road  is  narrow,  to  me  it  appears 
**  not  dull ;  and  befides  the  pleafant  reflections 
*<  which  occupy  my  mind,  I  have  a  book  which 
**  was  given  me  by  the  good  Evangelist,  and 
*'  in  which  when  my  fpirits  are  wearied,  it  con- 
"  ftantly  refrefhes  them  to  read." 

"  We  have  all  fuch  books,"  faid  the  Lord 
Love- change  ;  "  But  I  truly  have  read  mine  till 
"  I  am  tired  of  it,  and  would  gladly  read  fome- 
"  thing  new." 

"  I  .find  in  that  book,"  faid  Mr.  Hate-con- 
TROUL,  "  many  things  grievoufly  to  be  borne. 
"  Wherefore  inould  we  be  laden  with  reftri&ions, 
u  from  which  other  men  are  free  ?" 

"  And  from  what  are  we  reft.rict.ed,"  anfwered 
Good-intent  with  fomedifpleafure,  "  but  from 
"  iuch  things  as  would  in  this  world  be  dangerous 
«'  to  us,  and  in  the  next  deftrq&ive  ?  For  my  part, 


(     '3    ) 

"  I  find  in  my  book  no  laws,  to  which,  though 
"  they  came  not  to  us  from  fuch  high  authority, 
"  a  wife  man  would  not  willingly  fubject  himfelf ; 
"  but  were  our  yoke  as  hard  as  it  is  eafy,  who 
"  would  no.  rejoice  to  hear  it,  that  confidered 
"  either  the  illimitable  power  of  the  King  we  ferve, 
"  the  infinite  gratitude  we  owe  him  for  all  the 
M  favours  which  he  has  already  fo  liberally  con- 
u  ferred  Upon  us,  or  the  value  of  the  rewards 
"  with  which  he  has  promifed  hereafter  to  crown 
"  even  our  imperfect  obedience!'* 

"  It  is  a  great  pleafure  to  me,"  faid  Mr.  Cre- 
dulity, "  to  hear  you  fpeak  in  this  manner.  I 
"  can  affure  you  I  have  always  been  difpofed  to 
"  believe  that  book  to  be  true;  I  was  taught  to 
"  believe  fo  when  I  was  a  little  boy,  and  I  think 
"  I  never  fhould  be  comfortable  out  of  that  belief; 
"  though  I  confefs  that  fome  things  I  have  heard 
"  fince  I  came  into  this  company  have  fome  what 
"  daggered  me.      But  I  am  glad  that  you  are 

come,  to  confirm  me  in  my  former  opinions." 

"  Can  they  require  any  further  confirmation, " 
faid  Good-intent,    "  than  the  excellence  of 
.  "  the  book  itfelf?" 

"  As  for  that,"  replied  Mr.  Credulity,  I 
"  pretend  not  to  judge  of  it.  I  always  difliked 
"  reading,  and  provided  I  implicitly  believe  all 
"  the  book  contains,  why  need  I  give  myfelf  the 

rouble  to  fearch  what  its  contents  may  be?" 
c 


(     i4    ) 

rt  Truly,"  faid  Good-intent,  "  you  pro* 
"  fefs  a  faith  which  furpaflfes  my  comprehenfion. 
"  We  are  commanded  to  be  able  to  give  to  every 
"  man  a  reafon  of  the  hope  that  is  in  us  ;  but  we 
u  cannot  give  a  reafon  even  to  ourfelves,  if  we 
"  have  never  examined  what  is  the  object  of  our 
"  hope,  nor  what  the  foundation  on  which  it 
"  refts," 

"  I  perceive  that  you  are  of  the  fame  mind  as 
V  I  am,"  faid  Mr.  Curiosity.  "  I  am  not 
"  difpofed  to  take  any  thing  on  trufl: ;  and,  as 
"  knowledge  is  my  principal  purfuit,  I  find  great 
"  pleafure  in  reading  a  book,  which  treats  of  fo 
*'  many  rare  and  wonderful  things.  Thofe  parts 
"  of  it,  therefore,  which  are  the  moft  hard  to  be 
"  undei  flood,  are  my  favourite  ftudy." 

"  Take  heed,"  faid  Good-intent,  "  that 
"  you  wreft  them  not  to  your  own  dcftrtt&ion. 
"  There  are  fubje&s  which  our  finite  underfland- 
"  ings  cannot  reach;  and,  if  we  feck  too  pre- 
"  {umptuoufiy  to  penetrate  into  myfteries  which  as 
K  yet  are  but  in  part  revealed  to  us,  thofe  things, 
"  which  iliould  have  been  for  our  peace,  may 
•  us  an  occafion  of  falling." 

•  "  1  have  no  lea  is  on  that  head,"  faid  Mr.  Cu- 
.  ,  "I  thaii  -herefoie  purfue  my 
11  v  ithout   fcivpki    and   if  the    In 
t;  Wr.'Sx  houfe  we  mull  by  this 
(l  neaj*,  cannot  fat         . 


(    '5    ) 

"  fpe&ing  which  I  mean  to  queftion  him,  T  mall 
"  either  quit  this  road,  and  feek  elfe where  for  a 
"  better  teacher,  or  I  fhall  at  once  conclude 
"  every  do&rine  falfe,  in  proportion  as  I  fmd  is 
u.  unintelligible." 

Good-intent  would  have  returned  fome 
■anfwer  to  this  difcourfe,  which  in  truth  had 
much  offended  him ;  but  that,  on  afcending  a 
little  hill,  they  had  fuddenly  a  profpcdfc  of  the 
road  before  them,  to  a  confiderable  di fiance. 

"  Look  yonder  !"  faid  the  Lord  Inconside- 
rate; "  See  before  us  Mr.  Interpreter's 
"  houfe." 

"  How  (hall  we  know,"  faid  Good-intent, 
"  which  of  thofe  two  manfjcns  it  is  thai  belongs 
"  to  the  Interpreter?" — For  indeed  they  defcried 
from  that  place  two  houfes,  whereof  that  to 
which  they  were  then  neareft  lay  a  little  way 
off  the  road  on  the  left  hand;  but  the  other  was 
farther  on  upon  the  right  hand,  and  flood  clofe 
by  the  way-fide. 

This  larfc  was  an  old  and  venerable  building,; 
but  its  walls,  by  reafon  of  their  ftrength  and 
thicknefs,  had  as  yet  fuffered  none  of  the  decays 
of  time.  Behind  it  lay  a  garden,  in  the  which 
were  planted  all  foch  herbs  as  are  ufeful  either  for 
fo;.d  or  medicine;  and  as  many,  even  the  mair 
profitable  amongft  them,  bore  goodly  ilowers 
Withal,  fo  the  whole  plot  of  ground,  being  well 


(     16    ) 

laid  out  and  fitly  kept,  had  a  fair  appearance. 
But  the  houfe  on  the  left  fide  of  the  road  was  a 
new  edifice,  and  feemed  the  palace  of  fome  mighty 
prince;  fo  coflly  were  its  materials,  and  fo  rare 
its  ftructure.  It  flood  in  the  midft  of  an  extenfive 
pleafure-ground,  curiouily  difpofed  into  lawns, 
labyrinths,  and  wildernefTes,  through  the  midft 
whereof  did  glide  a  dream,  which,  though  nar-, 
row,  was  fo.deep,  that  I  could  not  perceive  that 
it  had  any  bottom;  moreover  its  courfe  was  fo 
crooked,  that  meihought  it  refembled  a  ferpent 
in  its  manifold  turnings  and  windings.  In  this 
pleafure-ground  I  could  not  but  obferve  that  there 
were  many  more  flowers,  and  thofe  mining  with 
more  gorgeous  colours,  than  in  the  garden  which 
belonged  to  the  other  houfe ;  but  I  perceived  not 
that  any  fruits  grew  there,  fave  fome  which  re- 
fembled the  fruits  of  the  tree  of  knowledge  of 
good  and  evil,  which  grew  in  the  midft  of  the 
garden  of  Eden. 

How,  as  I  faid  before,  I  faw  that  the  pilgrims 
were  at  a  lofs  to  determine  which  of  thefe  two 
was  the  houfe  at  which  they  ought  to  feek  for 
entertainment ;  and  as  they  walked  on,  they  dis- 
puted on  the  fubjecl:  among  themfelves.  Yet  they 
were  all  molt  taken  with  the  appearance  of  that 
on  the  left  hand,  and  inclined  to  petition  there  for 
a  lodging,  if  peradventure  it  might  be  afforded 
them.     Only  Good-intent  obje&ed,  becaufe- 


(    i7    ) 

the  building  feemed  fo  modern ;  "  And  we  know,'7 
faid  he,  "  that  the  Interpreter  is  no  new  refident 
<;  in  thefe  parts." 

"  But  we  know  not,"  faid  the  Lord  Incon- 
siderate, "  whether  he  may  not  have  built 
"  himfelf  a  new  houfe." 

"  What  imports  it  to  us  in  what  houfe  he 
"dwells?"  faid  the  Lord  Love-change  ;  "we 
"  are  not  obliged  to  choofe  him  for  our  hofr,  if  we 
*  can  be  better  entertained  elfevvhere?" 

"  I  am  determined,"  faid  Mr.  Hot-head, 
"  to  take  up  my  lodging  at  the  houfe  on  the  left 
«  hand." 

"  So  will  I,"  faid  the  Lord  Party-spirit, 
"  if  my  friends  agree  to  prefer  it." 

"  At  leafr,"  faid  Mr.  Curiosity,  "  we  may 
"  ftep  afide  into  the  pleafure-ground,  and  take  a 
"  nearer  view  of  it."  And  with  him  agreed  the 
others  of  his  party.  f 

But  Hill  Good-intent,  who  was  little  fatis- 
fkd  with  their  converfation,  doubted  in  his  own 
mind  whether  it  would  be  fafe  to  turn  at  all 
out  of  the  high  road,  clofe  by  the  fide  of  which 
he  obferved  the  right-hand  houfe  to  be  placed; 
but  while  he  debated  the  matter  with  hirnfelf, 
he  unluckily  forgot  the  words  of  the  porter  at 
the  wicket  gate,  and  thought  not  of  plucking 
his  book  out  cf  his  bofom,  to  feek  therein  for 
tounfek 

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(    i8    ) 

So  as  they  went,  they  eame  to  a  bridge,  built 
over  that  ftream,  which  ran  through  the  pleafure- 
grounds  on  the  left  fide,  and  which  here  croffed 
the  great  road,  and  juft  beyond  the  bridge  there 
was  a  gate,  through  which  was  the  way  up  to  the 
houfe.     Now  the  pilgrims  were  faint  and  weary 
with  their  journey,  and  as  they  viewed  the  ftream, 
the  waters  thereof  did  feem  to  offer  them  a  plea- 
fant  refreshment-  fo  the  Lord  Inconsiderate 
and  Mr.  Hot-head  did  forthwith  ftoop  down 
and  drink,  and  the  others  were  not  flow  to  follow 
their   example;    only    Good-intent    doubted 
whether  it  might  not  be  more  expedient  to  forbear, 
till  he  fhould  come  to  the  houfe,  where,  by  the 
command  of  the  Lord  of  the  way,  all  things  that 
were  proper  for   the   entertainment  of  pilgrims 
were  plentifully   provided    for   them.      But  Mr. 
Curiosity  had  a  cup  of  coftly  workmanfhip, 
which  pofTeffed  the  property  of  exciting  thirft  in 
all  who  held  it  near  their  lips ;.  and,  having  filled  it 
Avith  the  water,  he  prefented  it  to  Good-intent, 
who  had  no  fooner  taken  it  in  his  hand,  than  its 
hidden  power  overcame  him,  and  he  was  unable 
to  forbear  drinking  at  one  draught  all  that  it  con- 
tained; nay,  he  afterwards  filled  it  twice  or  thrice 
him  df9  and  drank  again. 

Now  I  faw  in  my  dream  that  it  frill  wanted 
fome  hours  of  nighr,  and  the  fun,  though  a  few 
paffiog  clouds  did  fometimes  veil  his  brightnefs, 


(     '9    ) 

did  yet  give  fufficient  light  to  enlighten  all  who 
dwell  upon  the  earth;  bat,  as  the  pilgrims  drank 
of  the  water  of  that  ftream,  a  black  mift  began  to 
arife  from  beneath  the  ground,  and  to  fpread  itfelf 
around  them,  and  prefently  the  face  of  the  heavens 
was  concealed  from  their  view,  and  they  were  left 
in  total  darknefs;  neither  durfb  any  man  venture 
to  move  from  the  place  wherein  he  flood,  either 
backwards  or  forwards,  for  he  knew  not  where 
he  mould  fet  his  foot.  Then  cried  they  all  one  to 
another,  "  What  (hall  we  do?"  But  no  man  was 
able  to  be  a  guide  unto  the  reft.  At  laft  they  de- 
feried  advancing  towards  them,  from  the  houfe  on 
the  left  hand,  one  who  bore  a  torch  in  his  hand; 
fo  they  were  glad  when  they  faw  him,  and  as  he 
drew  near  they  made  obeifance  to  him,  and  be- 
fought  him  that  he  would  deliver  them  out  of  the 
darknefs  which  furrounded  them. 

Then  the  man,  whofe  name  was  False-rea- 
soning, told  them  that  for  that  purpofe  was  he 
come;  "  For,"  faid  he,,  "  my  mafter  has  beheld 
"  your  diftrefs  from  the  windows  of  his  palace; 
"  and,  as  it  is  his  efpecial  ofHce  to  ibccour  pil- 
"  grims  who  have  loft  their  way  in  the  mifts  of 
M  ignorance,  which  hereabouts  are  very  common, 
"  he  has  fent  me  forth  to  give  you  light,  and  to 
"  guide  you  in  fafety  to  his  gates." 

Then  faid  Mr.  Credulity,  "  We  are  much 
H  beholden  to  thy  mafter ;  and  though  before  we 


(      20      ) 

f*  received  this  mark  of  kindnefs,  we  differed 
11  from  each  other  in  opinion,  we  may  ail  now 
11  confidently  aflure  ourfelves  that  he  is  of  a  truth 
*'  that  good  Interpreter  to  whofe  houfe  we  were 
"  direaed." 

"  But  is  he  indeed  the  fame,"  faid  Goor>- 
intent,  "  who  heretofore  proved  fo  excellent 
"  a  friend  to  Christian?" 

"  He  beareth  the  fame  title,"  faid  False- 
reasoning,  "  but  with  much  better  claim  to  h; 
"  for  that  old  gentleman,  of  whom  you  fpeak, 
"  even  in  his  belt,  days,  could  do  nothing  more 
"  for  pilgrims  than  repeat  to  them  a  few  trite 
"  fayings,*and  give  them  a  lodging  at  his  houfe ; 
"  whereas  my  matter  will  fliew  you  fuch  won- 
u  ders,  as  have  never  been  feen  before  fmce  the 
f  foundation  of  the  world ;  he  will  impart  unto 
"  you  fuch  wifdom,  as  it  is  reported  your  firfli 
*'  parents  thought  it  worth  their  while  to  forfeit 
"  Paradife  to  obtain ;  and  he  will  beftow  upon 
<•  you  fuch  privileges,  as  no  one  but  himfelf  did 
"  ever  poffefs  the  power  to  confer." 

"  It  is  well  for  us  that  we  have  met  with  fuch 
*»  a  friend,"  faid  my  Lord  Inconsiderate. 

"  Let  us  inftantly  accept  his  invitation,"  faid 
Mr.  Hot-head. 

"  Any  tiling  rather  than  continue  in  this  dai 
"  nefs,"  faid  Mr.  Discontent. 

"  This  new  Interpreter  will  prove  more  fer- 


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(    ai    ) 

"  viceable  to  us  than  the  old,"  faid  the  Lord 
Love-change. 

"  There  can  be  no  doubt  of  that,"  faid  Mr. 
Credulity. 

"  I  burn  with  impatience,"  faid  Mr.  Curio- 
sity, "  to  fee  and  to  hear  thofe  rare  things 
"  which  we  are  promifed  at  this  houfe." 

"  And  I,"  faid  Mr.  Hate-controul,  "  to 
(<  enjoy  thofe  new  privileges  of  which  this  man 
«  fpeaks." 

"  Gentlemen,"  faid  the  Lord  Party- spirit, 
"  whkherfcever  you  go,  I  will  go;  for  I  never 
tc  defert  my  friends." 

"  I  pray  you,"  faid  Good-intent  unto  him 
who  bore  the  torch,  "  is  the  old  Interpreter 
"  yet  alive  ?" 

False-reasoning — "  It  can  fcarcely  be  faid 
"  that  he  is;  for  his  extreme  old  age  hath  quite 
"  benumbed  his  faculties,  and  reduced  hira  to  a 
"  ftate  of  abfolute  dotage.  He  could  not  indeed 
"  have  been  kept  out  of  his  grave  fo  long,  but  by 
"  the  ftrong  cordials  which  have  been  adminif- 
"  tered  to  him  by  a  certain  mountebank,  named 
"  Priest-craft,  who  finds  his  own  advantage 
"  in  ufurping  the  old  gentleman's  authority  over 
"  the  bafer  fort  of  pilgrims  who  travel  this  read/* 

Good-intent — "  But  which  is  the  houfe 
"  whereat  Christian  was  fo  hofpitably  enteri 
«  tained?" 


(    -22      J 

,  F;LSE'REAS0ning-"  He  lodged  at  that  old 
ruinous  manfion,  which  (lands  a  little  beyond 
my  matter's,  and  on  the  oppofite  fide  of  the 

u  road." 

Good-,ntent-«  And  could  not  we  alfo 

obtain  a  lodging  there?" 

Fai.se:REAsonING_«  You  might  probably 
f  be  admitted  to  lleep  there,  „.y,   and  hav,  { 

potton  adminirtered  unto  you  to  make  your  lleep 

he  founder;  but  you  would  find  none  of  that 

dehcous  fare  which  my  mailer  colled*  from 

*  every  quarter  of  the  globe  for  the  nouriftment 

t  iuch  travellers  as  come  unto  him;   of  the 
|teellence  whereof  you  may  fpeed 
/ourlelves,  fince  the  hour  of  his  banquet  draws 


near. 


-On  hearing  this,  mod  of  the  pilgrims  quick- 
ened their  pace;  but  Good-intent'  dill  hefi- 
!  :d;  for  having  been  accuftomed  all  his  life  to 
hear  the  praifes  of  the  ancient  Interpreter 
he  could  not  lightly  perfuade  himfelf  that  any 
houfe  could  be  fitter  than  his  was  for  the  accom- 
modaUon  of  -pilgrims.— Y«  he  feared  to  be  left 
to  wander  alone  in  darknefe.-He  once  he- 
ight himfelf  of  his  book,  and  plucked  it 
out    of  h  a    ami    opened   it;    but   as   he 

"as  Wa  h  lowly,  after  the  reft,  the 

did   render  his  hand  un- 
jjBeady  to  ho«   it:   moreover,   the  glare  of  the 


(      23      ) 

torch  of  False-reasoning  did  much  dazzle 
his  eyes.  So  he  fatisfled  himfelf  that  it  was 
impoffible  to  read  at  that  juncture,  and  there- 
fore did  not  perfevere  in  the  attempt;  but  re- 
clofing  the  volume,  he  put  it  back  into  his 
bofom,  and  faid  to  himielf,  "  If  I  like  not  my 
"  entertainment  to-night,  I  can  but  refume  my 
"  journey  in  the  morning,  and  repair  to  the  houfe 
"  at  which  my  fathers  were  lodged.  The  mid: 
"  may  be  then  difperfed,  and  I  may  be  able  to 
"  difcern  my  way,  but  at  prefent  I  ihould  periih 
"  in  the  darknefs,  if  I  imprudently  refufed  to 
11  avail  myfelf  of  the  light  which  this  man's  torch 
"  imparts  unto  me." — So  he  walked  on  more 
confidently;  and  as  they  approached  the  palace, 
behold  it  was  all  illuminated,  and  the  lamps  which 
were  within  cart  forth  fuch  a  fplendour,  that 
the  pilgrims  imagined  the  light  of  day  reftorcd  un- 
to them. 

Then  Mr.  Curiosity  inquired  of  their  guide, 
what  v.ti\  his  mailer's  name  and  parentage.. 

False-Reasoning — ';  Kis  name  is  Philo- 
1  sophy  :  he  is  die  fon  of  Reason  and  of  Na- 
'  ture.  The  place  of  his  birth  is  not  certainly 
;  known;  but  it  is  generally  believed  that  his 
?  ir.faticy  was  fpept  in  Egypt,  where  he  wa$ 
ed    by    Fable  ;    and 

is    vouth   in    Greece,    \vi. 
i   him--  lo  maturiiv. 


(    H    ) 

**  Various  misfortunes  befel  him,  and  he  lived  many 
"  years  in  an  obfcure  and  tedious  exile:  but  lately, 
"  having  been  invited  by  Learning  to  return 
"  into  Europe,  he  has  been  univerfally  received 
"  with  fuch  honours  as  have  amply  repaid  him  for 
**  the  unmerited  flights  which  had  formerly  been 
w  fhewn  him.  There  is  one  country  in  particular 
"  of  which  he  has  been  appointed  fovereign  law- 
€i  giver ;  and  where  divine  honours  are  paid  to 
"  him.  Yet  fuch  is  his  zeal  for  the  general  in- 
tl  terefl  of  mankind,  that  he  does  not  reftridr.  his 
"  fervices  to  any  fingle  nation,  but  has  built  this 
"  palace  by  the  fide  of  the  high  road,  for  the 
"  reception  of  pilgrims  from  all  regions  of  the 
"earth;  and,  as  his  knowledge  is  univerfal,  he 
"  readily  imparts  to  all  his  guefts  fuch  inftruc- 
*{  tions  as  they  may  be  either  willing  or  able  to 
««  receive." 

By  tills  time  they  drew  very  near  unto  the 
palace;  and  they  could  hear  within  its  walls  a 
confufed  noife,  like  the  found  of  many  voices: 
alfo  they  could  difcern  through  the  windows  large 
companies  of  people  in  every  apartment.  Then 
Mr.  Curiosity  afked,  who  all  thofe  perfons 
were. 

False-reasoning— "  All  whom  you  fee 
"  within  are  my  matter's  pupils,  men,  who  com- 
"  ing  to  lodge  at  his  houfe  as  you  do  now,  have 
"  been  fo  much  taken  up  with  the  wonders  they 


(     25     ) 

u  have  feen  there,  that  they  have  defired  to  remain 
"  with  him  for  a  feafon,  in  order  to  have  fufficient 
"  leifure  to  receive  his  inftru<5t.ions,  and  to  con- 
"  template  his  works ;  and  how  well  fome  of  them 
"  have  profited  by  his  leflbns,  you  will  have  an 
"  opportunity  of  judging  to-morrow  by  your  own 
"  obfervations,  when  you  fhall  be  permitted  to 
**  vifit  the  academy." 

They  now  entered  a  fpacious  and  magnificent 
hall,  where  many  attendants  were  in  waiting  to 
receive  them  •   and  pa  fling  thence  through  feveral 
other  rooms  fuperbly  decorated,  they  were  at  lad: 
ufliered   into  the  banquet-chamber,    where   they 
found  the  matter  of  the  houfe  furrounded  by  a 
very  numerous  company  of  his  guefts,  who  all 
came  forward  to  falute  them.     From  the  account 
which  had  been  given  them  by  the  way  of  the 
paft  life  of  Mr.  Philosophy,  the  pilgrims  had 
expected  to  find   him    a   very    aged  man;    they 
were  therefore  fomewhat  furprifed  at  his  youth- 
ful  appearance,    which   they  could   not   but  re- 
mark, although,  in  order  to  difguife  it,  he  wore 
a  Grecian  mantle,  and  a  Roman  veft.     He  wel- 
comed  them    with   extraordinary   courtefy,    and 
made  them  a  long  harangue,  which  afforded  them 
occafion   to  admire   his    fluency  of  fpeech,   and 
wonderful    erudition;    neverthelefs,    even    thofe 
among  them  who  paid  the  greateft  attention  to 
what  he  faid,  could  not  take  upon  themfelves 


(     26     ) 

to  affirm  that  they  clearly  comprehended  a  {ingle- 
fentence  of  it;  but  they  modeftly  imputed  this1 
circumftance  to  their  own  incapacity,  rather  than 
to  any  intentional  obfcurity  on  his  part;  and  the 
feaft  being  now  brought  in,  they  feared  them- 
felves  at  the  table  in  the  order  appointed  by  their 
hofh 

It  was  the  fortune  of  Good -intent  to  be 
placed  between  two  of  the  gentlemen  whom 
they  had  found  with  Mr.  Philosophy  on  their 
arrival,  whofe  names  were  Mr.  Free-thought 
and  Mr.  Plausible;  and  their  converfation 
pleafed  him  10  well,  that  he  began  to  find  him- 
felf  in  better  fpirits  than  he  had  ever  been  fince 
he  had  lirft  confented  to  turn  afide  out  of  the 
great  road.  But,  while  he  was  talking  with 
them,  he  chanced  to  call:  his  eyes  on  a  company 
of  men  who  fat  apart  from  the  reft;  he  could 
not  fee  their  faces;  for  they  were  all  muffled  up 
in  thick  cloaks,  and  wore  caps  of  a  grotefque 
fhape,  pulled  down  over  their  eyes;  but  there 
was  fomething  in  their  appearance  which  in- 
fpired  him  with  an  involuntary  terror;  and  he 
could  not  refrain  from  inquiring  of  his  two  com- 
panions, who  thofe  men  were. 

"  They  are  not  worth  your  attention,"  faid 
Mr.  Plausible;  "  they  are  fome  of  the  vaf- 
"  fals  of  the  lord  of  this  palace,  and  nev*r  a& 
"  but  by  his  order." 


(       *7       ) 

"  But  wherefore  are  they  armed  ?"  faid  Good- 
intent  ;  for  he  perceived  that  they  all  wore 
daggers  in  their  girdles. 

"It  is  no  more  than  neceffary,"  replied  Mr. 
Plausible;  "  for  you  muft  know  that  Mr. 
"  Philosophy,  though  a  friend  and  well-wifher 
"  to  all  mankind,  is  yet  fo  unfortunate  as  to  have 
"  many  enemies,  of  whom  the  principal  are  two 
"  fierce  giants,  named  Superstition  and  Des- 
"  potism.  By  thefe,  and  by  their  fubje&s  and 
"  allies,  he  is  frequently  affaulted ;  and  being 
"  himfelf  of  a  difpofition  averfe  from  warfare, 
"  he  is  obliged,  for  the  fake  of  his  own  fecu- 
lt  rity,  to.  keep  in  his  fervice  certain  armed  men, 
V  who  may  be  ready,  in  cafe  of  any  fudden 
"  affault,  to  defend  him  and  his  property  from 
*'  violence." 

.  "  From  what  my  friend  has  been  faying,"  in- 
terpofed  Free-thought,  "  you  may  perceive, 
"Mr.  Good-intent,  how  rightly  you  have 
"  addreiTed  yourfelf  in  coming  to  this  houfe; 
"  for  you  cannot  be  ignorant  of  the  many  in- 
H  juries  which  your  own  kinsfolk  have  fuftained 
"  from  thofe  who  are  now  the  enemies  of  Mr. 
"  Philosophy.  You  will  not,  therefore,,  af- 
M  furedly  refufe  to  unite  with  us,  as  in  one 
"  common  caufe,  and  affifl  us  to  exterminate 
"both  Despotism  and  Superstition,  with 


{    *8    ) 

*t  all  the  minifters  of  their  violence,  from  the 
"  earth." 

Good-intent,  indeed,  recollected,  that,  be- 
fore he  had  fet  out  from  his  own  country,  he  had 
heard  many  inftances  of  the  cruelty  and  injuftice 
of  thofe  two  giants;  but  as  he  had  underftood 
tli at  for  many  years  pall:  they  had  been  retrained 
from  making  any  inroads  into  the  regions  through 
which  the  way  of  the  pilgrims  lay,  he  was  un- 
certain how  far  it  might  be  expedient  for  him 
to  quit  that  way  in  order  to  make  war  on  them 
an  any  diftant  country.  However,  as  it  was 
then  late,  he  would  not  enter  into  a  full  dif- 
cuflion  of  the  fubjecfc,  but  told  Mr.  Free- 
thought  that  he  would  talk  further  with  him 
In  the  morning;  and  presently  afterwards  the 
whole  company  retired  to  reft. 

Good-intent,  being  tired  with  his  journey, 
foon  fell  afleep;  and  though  I  never  heard  him 
relate  his  dreams,  I  could  perceive  that  they  were 
very  delightful  unto  him ;  for  fometimes  he  fmiled 
in  his  ikep,  and  fometimes  I  heard  him  ex- 
claim, "  The  golden  age  reftored  I  The  reign 
"  of  Reafon!  Univerfal  peace  and  freedom  un- 
"  controuled!"— Now,  when  it  was  morning,  he 
awoke,  rofe  from  his  bed,  and  attired  himfelf; 
and  taking  his  book  from  the  table  on  which  he 
bad  laid  it  the  night  before,  he  was  going,  accord- 


(    29    ) 

ing  to  his  ufual  cuftom,  to  read  a  certain  por- 
tion of  it  before  he  quiued  his  chamber  ;  but  one 
named  Impatience  came  to  call  him  to  attend 
Mr.  Philosophy,  who  was  ready  to  {hew  the 
pilgrims  his  fignificant  rooms ;  fo  he  put  the  book 
unopened  into  his  bofom,  and  went  nattily  down 
to  the  hall. 

Now  when  all  thofe  who  had  arrived  at  the 
palace  the  night  before  were  met  together,  Mr. 
Philosophy  came  forth  unto  them;  and  firft 
he  led  them  into  his  academy,  where  all  his  pupils 
were  bufied  in  their  feveral  ftudies  and  occupa- 
tions; but  their  labours  appeared  fo  unlike  thofe 
of  other  men,  that  the  pilgrims  were  filled  with 
wonder,  and  could  not  help  afking  fome  quef- 
tions  of  their  conductor,  who  readily  undertook 
to  anfwer  their  inquiries. — 

"  From  the  extraordinary  works  which  are 
"  performed  by  my  pupils,"  faid  he,  "  you  may 
"  befl:  learn  in  what  eftimation  to  hold  the  in- 
"  ftru&ions  which  they  have  received  from  me. 
"  Do  you  fee  him  who  is  arranging  in  fuch  exact 
"order  his  heaps  of  ftones  and  cockle-fhells? 
"  I  have  taught  him  to  decypher  characters  un- 
"  intelligible  to  vulgar  eyes ;  fo  that  he  is  able 
"  to  read  on  every  foffi-1  the  true  date  of  the 
-"  time  at  which  it  was  firfl:  depofited  in  the  bed 
"  of  earth  from  which  he  dug  it;  by  which 
"  means  he  can  now  fet  at  defiance  all  other 
i>2 


(    3°    ) 

w  chronologifta  and  hiftorians,  ancient  and  mo- 
"  dren,  and  add  in  one  moment  miriads  of  un- 
"  counted  ages  to  the  antiquity  of  the  world 
"  whkh  we  inhabit. — Not  far  from  him,  you 
4(  may  perceive,  on  a  table,  a  globe  of  glafs.  k 
"  is  a  fmall  fragment  of  the  fun,  lately  ftruck 
"  off  by  the  tail  of  a  comet.  As  foon  as  I  faw 
♦'that,  by  its  rotatory  motion,  it  had  obtained 
M  a  fpheiical  figure^  I  feized  it,  and  gave  it  to 
"  him  whom  yoa  may  fee  fo  intently  watching 
"  it.  In  about  forty  thoufand  years,  by  which 
"  time  it  will  be  properly  cooled,  be  will  hare 
•*  the  fatisfa&ion  of  feeing  it  covered  with  herb- 

*  age  and  with  trees;  foon  afterwards,  all  kinds 
"  of  animals  will  fpontaneouily  fpring  from  it ; 
**  and,  laftlyr  it  will  bring  forth  men,  who  of 
u  courfe  will  reafon  aaid  converfe  as  we  do. — 
"  He  who  fits  next  is  employed  in  changing 
*'  flowers  into  butterflies  -,  whkh  he  effects  by 
"  infufing  ifito  their  component  parts  a  defire  of 
w;  loco-motion. — You  may  fee  a  proje&or  of  a 

*  lower  order,  who  is  filling  bladders  with  air 
*;  for  the  purpofe  of  flying;  and  aaother,  who  is 
*4  bufied  in  the  conftru&ion  of  a  boat,  m  which 
•'  he  propofes  to  fail  at  trie  bottom  of  the-  fea. — 
■"  But,  a  little  further  on  fits  n*y  favourite  febo- 
**  laT,  who  is  occupied  in  preparing  tfee  elixir  of 
4i  Human   Perfectibility*    of  which  if  a   man 

*  iafte,  he  fhall  forthwith  become  incapable  of 


(    31    ) 

f*  feeling  the  decays  of  age  and  ficknefs ;  and 
■*  ceafing  to  eat,  drink,  or  fleep,  he  ihall  fpend 
»  his  time  chiefly  in  leaping  or  dancing;  till,  by 
"  the  virtue  of  this  medicine,  death  fhall  be  to- 
"  tally  banifhed  from  the  world,  and  the  human 
"  race  continuing  daily  to  increafe,  and  fuftaining 
"  no  diminution,  fhall  cover  the  whole  furfaee  of 
"  the  earth,  and  the  want  of  local  room  (hall  to 
"  each  happy  individual  preclude  the  power  of 
"  motion." — 

Now  I  (aw  in  my  dream  that  aftonifhmens 
and  admiration  at  thefe  wonderiul  things  de- 
prived the  whole  company  of  pilgrims  of  all 
poflibility  of  utterance,  and  induced  mem  to  re- 
gard Mr.  Philosophy  with  ten-fold  venera- 
tion; "  For,"  thought  they,  "  if  thefe  be  the 
"  works  of  the  Scholars,  what  may  not  the  power 
"  of  the  matter  achieve :" 

So  he  went  on  with  this  difcourfe  to  them,  and 
lie  faid,  "  There  are  many  others  among  my  pu- 
*'  pils,  whofe  employments  are  no  lefs  worthy  of 
"  your  attention  than  what  you  already  have  be- 
"  held;  and  if  you  are  willing,  you  may  all  be- 
"  come  partakers  in  the  benefits  which  they  derive 
"  from  my  inftr  unions.  But  firft  I  mud  (hew 
"  you  otter  fights,  which  will  be  profitable  unto 
"  you,  and  from  which  you  may  learn  to  form 
•!  a  true  eft  i  mate  of  the  value  of  all  the  things 
*'  which  are  to  be  met  with  iu  this  world." 


(      32      ) 

Then  he  led  them  away  to  a  room,  in  whicri 
there  was  a  window  that  looked  out  upon  a  wide 
common;  and  there  appeared  on  the  common  a 
large  company  of  naked  men. — 

"Who  are  thofe  men?"  faid  Mr.  CURI- 
OSITY. 

"  They  are  brethren,"  anfwered  Mr.  Philo- 
sophy; "  watch,  and  fee  what  fhall  be  done 
"  unto  them." 

So  they  looked,  and  beheld  one  come  unto  them ; 
and  to  fome  of  them  he  gave  purple  garments  and 
crowns  of  gold,  and  to  others  changes  of  rai- 
ment and  fine  linen;  but  the  greater  part  he 
clothed  in  rags,  and  putting  fpades  and  pick- 
axes into  their  hands,  he  compelled  them  to  dig 
precious  ore  and  jewels  out  of  the  earth,  and 
to  give  them  unto  thofe  who  flood  by  idle, 
while  for  themfelves  they  found  but  a  few  roots 
whereon  to  feed,  as  a  recompenfe  for  their  fore 
labour. 

Then  faid  all  the  pilgrims,  "  What  meaneth 
"this?-" 

And  Mr.  Philosophy  anfwered  them,  "  You 
"  faw  that  at  ftrft  the  men  were  all  alike,  none 
•«  of  them  was  greater,  and  none  lefs  than  his 
"  fellows ;  till  he  whom  you  faw  come  unto 
*'  them,  whofe  name  was  Social-order,  did 
M  firft  make  a  difference  between  them.  And 
"  you  have  beheld  how  unjuftly  he  has  deak 


(     33    ) 

%l  with  them ;  how  he  has  exalted  a  few,  and  given 
"  unto  them  power  to  trample  on  the  many. 
"  Such  are  the  abufes  which  through  him  have 
14  been  introduced  into  the  world.— But  follow 
"  me  to  another  place,  and  you  fhall  fee  greater 
*'  evils  than  thefe." 

Then  Mr.  Discontent  groaned;  but  they 
all  followed  their  conductor,  who  brought  them 
where  there  was  a  view  of  a  black  and  gloomy 
tower.  The  narrow  crevices  which  ferved  in- 
ftead  of  windows  were  grated  over;  but  he  bade 
them  look  between  the  bars,  and  they  defcried 
within  certain  prifoners,  who  lay  fettered  in  a 
damp  and  noifome  dungeon. 

Then  faid  the  Pilgrims,  "  What  means 
"this?" 

"  You  may  have  already  heard,"  faid  Mr. 
"  Philosophy,  that  I  have  two  mortal  foes, 
"  who  are  alfo  the  foes  of  the  whole  human  race, 
M  and  againft  whom  all  who  defire  to  become 
"  my  difciples  mud  fwear  eternal  enmity.  The 
"  tower  which  you  behold  is  the  ftrong  hold  of 
"  one  of  them,  even  of  the  giant  Despotism; 
"  and  the  captives  whom  you  fee  within  are 
**  victims  of  his  cruelty." — 

Then  faid  Mr.  Hot- head,  "  Let  us  in- 
"  ftantly  ftorm  the  gates,  and  fet  them  free!" 

"  Your  zeal  is  commendable,"  faid  Mr.  Phi- 


(     34    ) 

losophy;  *'  but  wait  a  moment,  and  behold 
"  the  event." 

So  they  looked,  and  prefently  they  faw  a  wo- 
man gorgeoufly  attired,  with  a  red  cap  on  her 
head,  who  fuddenly  rofe  out  of  the  ground,  bear- 
ing a  lamp-poft  in  her  hand ;  and  when  fhe  had 
flricken  therewith  the  walls  of  the  tower,  they 
funk  with  a  mighty  crafh,  and  became  a  heap  of 
ruins.  Then  the  pilgrims  rejoiced  in  the  hope 
that  thofe  who  had  been  imprifoned  within  would 
now  recover  their  freedom;  but  Mr.  Philo- 
sophy was  nor  willing  that  they  fhould  flay 
to  fee  what  became  of  the  captives,  but  led 
them  nattily  away  to  another  apartment  ;•  as 
they  went,  however,  Mr.  Curiosity  inquired 
the  name  of  her  who  had  thrown  down  the 
tower,  and  was  told  that  fhe  was  called  Li- 
berty. 

So  they  came  next  to  a  place  where  they  faw 
a  throne  raifed  high,  and  there  fat  on  it  a  woman 
who  was  clothed  in  white  raiment,  but  it  was 
deeply  ftained  with  blood :  alfo  on  her  bread  fhe 
wore  a  bloody  crofs.  And  when  (lie  waved  her 
hand,  a  great  multitude  of  men  appeared  before 
her.  Then  fhe  blew  forth  from  her  l;ps  a 
flame,  which  in  a  moment  fattened  on  their  gar- 
ments; and  behold  the  men  fell  together  in  a 
heap,  and  were  all  quickly  confuined  to  afhes. 


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Then  were  the  pilgrims  much  difmayed,  and 
they  alked,   trembling,  "  What  meaneth  this?" 

Then  faid  Mr.  Philosophy,  "I  fhewed 
"  you  at  the  laft  place,  the  cruelty  of  Despot- 
M  ism,  one  of  the  enemies  by  whom  I  and  my 
"  friends  are  continually  perfecuted;  you  now 
"  behold  the  triumphs  of  the  ftill  more  terrible 
V  giant  Superstition.  Thefe  are  the  facri- 
"  fices  in  which  he  delighteth,  and  in  executing 
"  which  the  minifters  of  his  will  are  continually 
u  employed." 

"  But  who  is  (he,"  faid  Mr.  Curiosity, 
"  who  fits  on  the  throne,  and  by  whom  this 
"  deed  of  horror  has  been  performed?" 

"  She  is  the  eldeft  daughter  of  Supersti- 
f  tion,"  faid  Mr.  Philosophy,  "  and  her 
"  name  is  Christianity." 

Good-intent  darted.  He  had  hitherto  fol- 
lowed, loft  in  wonder,  and  without  confideration 
had  partaken  in  the  emotions  of  the  reft;  but 
now,  though  he  was  ftill  incapable  of  arranging 
the  reflections  which  crowded  tumultuouily  on 
his  mind,  yet  he  could  no  longer  conceal  from 
himfelf,  that  he  was  in  the  houfe  of  one  who 
was  an  enemy  to  his  king;  and  the  confeiouf- 
nefs  of  this  filled  him  with  an  uneafinefs,  in 
which  he  was  aftonifhed  to  fee  that  none  of  his 
companions  appeared  to  partake.  They  all  fol- 
lowed Mr.   Philosophy    as   complaifaudy  as 


(     3^    ) 

at  firft;  but  Good-intent  longed  to  difen- 
gage  himfelf  from  the  company,  though  for  the 
prefent  he  favv  no  good  opportunity  of  effecting 
his  efcape,  becaufe  their  conductor  had  clofed 
behind  them  every  door  through  which  they  had 
pafled;  wherefore,  fatisfying  himfelf  that  no  ob- 
ftacle  to  his  departure  could  exift  on  their  return, 
he  yielded  m  the  perfuafions  of  Mr.  Curiosity, 
and  with  the  reft  proceeded  (till  further. 

Then  Mr.  Philosophy  brought  them  to  a 
place,  where  they  faw  an  affemblage  of  men  of 
all  conditions.  Some  were  employed  in  various 
works  of  labour.;  but  as  they  worked,  they  fung 
with  merry  hearts;  and,  when  their  tafks  were 
ended,  they  arofe,  and  danced  upon  the  green: 
fome  were  counting  the  profits  they  had  gained 
by  merchandize;  and,  fome  in  gayer  clothing, 
were  engaged  in  various  fports,  and  feemed  to 
know  no  buGnefs  but  their  pleafure.  Yet  were 
the  pilgrims  greatly  aftoniftied  at  the  air  of  cheer- 
fulnefs,  which  was  vifible  on  every  countenance; 
for  the  men  were  all  Knked  together  by  two 
ponderous  iron  chains,  the  ends  of  which  were 
grafped  by  two  miihapen  giants,  who  fat  on 
a  rock,  and  viewed  their  captives  with  malignant 
exultation. 

**  Who  are  thofe  hideous  monfters,"  faid  Mr. 
Curiosity,  "  who  hold  enthralled  fo  many  of 
"  our  fellow-creatures?*' 


(    37     ) 

"  You  now  behold  my  enemies  in  perfon," 
faid  Mr.  Philosophy:  f1  he  who  wields  the 
"  fceptre  in  his  hand  is  Despotism;  yet  though 
*'  the  enfigns  of  royalty  are  his,  even  he  is  fubjedt 
"  to  the  controul  of  Superstition,  his  ftili 
"  more  imperious  brother,  who  bears  the  flaming 
«'  torch." 

"  But  thofe  fools  are  worthy  to  wear  their 
"  chains,"  faid  Mr.  Hate-controul,  "  who 
u  purfue  their  fports  and  occupations  with  fuch 
"  gay  levity,  making  no  effort  to  free  them- 
«  felves." 

"  Condemn  them  not  too  haftHy,"  faid  Mr. 
Philosophy,  "  left  your  cenfure  mould  ex- 
"  tend  further  than  you  as  yet  fuppole ;  and 
ft  know,  that  thole  men,  of  whom  you  thus 
"  contemptuoufly  fpeak,  are  themfelves  infenfible 
"  of  their  own  fervile  condition.  For  fuch  is 
"  the  magic  power  of  thofe  fell  giants,  that 
"  they  can  render  invifible  the  chains  which 
u  they  impofe,  and  fo  lull  to  fleep  the  faculties 
Xi  of  thofe  who  wear  them,  that  they  feel  not 
"  the  yoke,  even  while   it  galls  their  necks.— 

But  look  again,  and  a  new  fcene  of  things 
x<  will  difclofe  itfelf."— 

Tlien  they  looked,  and  beheld  a  perfon  Angu- 
larly attired;  for  his  garments  were  made  all  of 
paper,  and  on  every  fold  were  printed  in  legible 
charaders  the  words  Rights  of  Man.     He  ad- 

E 


(    33    ) 

vanced  towards  the  crowd,  bearing  in  his  hand 
a  large  mirror,  which  he  held  in  fuch  a  manner 
as  that  every  man  in  his  turn  faw  therein  his 
own  image;  and  fuch  was  the  virtue  of  that 
glafs,  that  as  he  looked  in  it,  his  eyes  were 
opened,  and  he  perceived  his  chains.  In  a  mo- 
ment the  voice  of  mirth  ceafed  among  them ; 
and  nothing  now  was  to  be  heard  but  groans 
and  lamentations,  intermixed  with  expreffions  of 
'fury  and  revenge  againft  the  tyrants  who  had 
thus  enflaved  them.  The  pilgrims  pitied  them, 
and  waited  with  fome  anxiety  to  fee  what  wTould 
be  the  efFe&s  of  the  new  fpirit  which  had  been 
thus  excited  among  them ;  when  on  a  fudden  he 
who  bare  the  glafs  ftepped  forward,  and  prefented 
it  to  the  guefts  of  Mr.  Philosophy. 

Mr.  Discontent  was  the  firir.  who  caught 
in  it  the  refle&ion  of  his  own  figure ;  and  what 
was  his  horror,  when  he  beheld  around  his  own 
neck  two  chains,  refembling  thofe  with  which 
the  other  captives  of  Superstition  and  Des- 
potism were  loaded?  He  ftarted  back  aghafl , 
and  Mr.  Hate-controul  caught  a  fimilar 
.v;ew. — he  gnafhed  his  teeth  with  defpite;  and 
Mr.  Hot- he  ad,  who  came  next,  was  altoge- 
ther mad  with  fury.  Surprifed  at  their  ravings, 
Mr.  Curiosity  preffed  forward  to  look;  and 
when  he  perceived  at  once  his  own  condition, 
and  that  of  his  companions,  he  feized  the  arm 


f    39    J 

of  Good- intent,  and  drew  him  towards  the 
mirror.  After  them  came  the  reft ;  and  all,  in- 
like  manner,  difcovered,  with  afloniihment,  their 
ftate  of  bondage.  All  too  now  felt  themfelves 
even  bowed  down  by  the  weight  of  the  chains, 
of  which,  but  a  few  moments  before,  they  had 
been  unconfcious;  and  while  fome  raged  and 
others  wept  at  the  thoughts  of  the  captivity  in 
which  they  were  holden,  all  were  exerting  their 
utmoft  efforts  to  break  their  bonds,  or  at  lean: 
to  loofen  them  from  their  necks ;  but  all  in 
vain  ;  the  more  they  flruggled  to  free  themfelves, 
the  tighter  did  the  tyrants  feem  to  draw  the 
chains.  At  lafl  they  addreffed  ihemfelves  to 
Mr.  Philosophy,  and  befought  him  to  deliver 
them. 

"  You  afk  of  me  more  than  I  am  able  to  do 
"  for  you,"  anfwered  he:  "  I  have  already  ren- 
"  dered  you  the  greateft  fervice  in  my  power, 
"  by  bringing  you  to  a  fenfe  of  your  thraldom; 
M  for,  though  till  now  you  have  been  ignorant 
"  of  it,  you  have  worn  thefe  chains  even  from 
"  your  birth  •  and  they  are  rivetted  fo  firmly  on 
"  your  necks,  that,  if  you  yourfelves  fhake  them 
"  not  off,  no  external  force  will  be  able  to  rt- 
"  leafe  you  from  them." 

"Alas!"  faid  Mr.  Discontent,  "  our 
"  ftrength  is  not  fufneient  to  break  them." 


(     40     ) 

**  Yet  I  would  die."  faid  Mr.  H ate- con- 
TRoul,  "  radier  than  fubmit  to  wear  them  any 
*'  longer." 

"  Let  us  perifh  glorioufly,"  faid  Mr.  Hot- 
head, "  in  rcfhing  forward  to  attack  the  tyrants 
"  on  their  lofty  feat!" 

"  The  time  for  adventurous  daring  may  come 
*<  hereafter,"  faid  Mr.  Philosophy:  "  till  your 
"  own  necks  (hall  be  freed  from  the  yoke  of 
**  the  tyrants,  all  attempts  to  overthrow  their 
**  power  will  be  fruitlefs.  There  is  but  one 
**  way  by  which  your  chains  can  be  loofed; 
"  and  to  /hew  you  that  way  is  the  only  re- 
P  maining  fervice  I  can  render  you.  If  you 
**  know  how  to  value  freedom  as  you  ought, 
"  you  will  not  think  it  dearly  purchafed  by  the 
*«  ufe  of  the  means  I  fhall  point  out  to  you." 

Mr.  Credulity  did  not  hcfitate  to  exprefs 
his  implicit  confidence  in  the  directions  of  lus 
conductor;  and  all  joined  in  requefting  him  to 
confer  on  them,  without  delay,  this  promifed  fa- 
vour, excepting  Good-intent ;  who,  indeed, 
continued  to  follow  him  with  the  reft,  for  he 
knew  not  what  other  courfe  to  take;  but,  while 
his  companions  prefTed  forward  with  eager  impa- 
tience, he  walked  the  laft,  melancholy  and  lilent. 

After   they   had   defcended    feveral    nights    of 
fleps,  Mr.  Philosophy  then  led  them  through. 


(  4«  ) 
many  crooked  fubterranean  pafTages,  now  bend- 
ing to  the  right  hand,  and  now  to  the  left; 
fometimes  proceeding  for  a  ihort  time  ftraight 
forwards,  and  then  fuddenly  turning  in  an  op- 
pofue  direction,  and  leading  them  backwards  al- 
moft  to  the  point  from  which  they  had  fet  out. 
I  faw,  moreover,  that  in  thefe  pafTages  there 
was  no  other  light  than  that  which  was  afforded 
by  numerous  lamps,  of  various  colours,  fo  dif- 
pofed  as  to  cart  alternately  different  (hades  on 
all  objects  within  fight  of  the  pilgrims:  info- 
much  that  nothing  whereon  they  looked  ap- 
peared to  their  eyes  to  wear  its  own  proper  and 
natural  hue.  At  laft  they  reached  a  brazen 
door;  which  being  opened  unto  them  by  Mr. 
Philosophy,  they  entered  a  temple  of  black 
marble.  From  it,  as  well  as  from  the  pafTages 
which  had  led  to  it,  every  beam  of  the  light  of 
heaven  was  excluded;  nor  did  the  pilgrims  find 
here  even  fuch  lamps  as  had  hitherto  enlightened 
their  fteps;  only  in  the  midft  of  the  temple,  on 
an  altar,  burned  a  pale  and  quivering  flame. 
Even  the  boldeft  of  the  band,  on  his  entrance, 
felt  his  blood  congealed  with  a  fudden  horror. 
Each  turned  to  look  on  his  companions ;  but  for 
fome  moments,  their  eyes,  unaccuflomed  to  the 
gloom,  were  unable  to  diftinguifh  objects;  and 
in  all,  the  nobler  powers  of  life  feemed  for  a  while 
fufpended. 

£  2 


(    4*    ) 

By  degrees  they  became  more  able  to  pene- 
trate the  obfcurity;  and  they  defcried,  though 
dimly,  two  portentous  forms — they  fuppofed 
them  the  powers  to  whofe  honour  that  temple 
had  been  built.  One  fat  on  a  pile  of  arms;  his 
garments  dropped  with  gore;  and  a  flight  o£ 
vultures,  hovering  above  his  head;  with  hoarfe 
fcreams  demanded  of  him  their  accuftomed  food. 
The  other  phantom  was  half  veiled  in  a  miity 
cloud;  for  had  his  whole  form  been  discovered, 
no  mortal  eye  could  have  endured  the  terrors 
q{  his  afpect.  A  dragon's  creft  appeared  to 
crown  his  head;  his  arm  reded  on  a  brokeiv 
anchor,,  and  the  thunderbolt  of  Heaven  was  tram* 
pled  beneath  his  feet.-— 

"Here  feek,  and  here  obtain  deliverance!" 
iaid  Mr.  Philosophy:  "  Behold  I  have  brought 
"  you  into  the  prefence  of  thofe  who  alone  are 
"  a1)le  to  give  you  perfect  liberty.  Proftrate 
"  yourfelves  before  them;  and  then,  with  fee u- 
"  rity  of  acceptance,  offer  the  facrifice  which. 
u  the  Powers  of  Freedom  demand." 

At  thefe  words,  the  pilgrims  bf>wed  them- 
felves  to  the  ground:  Good-intent  alone, 
aghaft  and  motionlefs,  flood  ftill  in  his  place, 
and  obeyed  not  the  voice  of  his  conductor;  but 
as  he  was  behind  the  reft,  it  chanced  that  his 
omifTion  was  not  obferved.  When  the  others 
had  performed  their  homage,  the  flame  on  the 


f    43    ) 

altar  rofe  higher  and  burned  more  brightly  than 
before,  as  if  to  require  their  worfhip  with  a 
favourable  omen.  They  now  felt  themfelves- 
emboldened  to  look  with  more  confidence  on  tht 
phantoms  whicb  their  guide  had  entitled  the 
Powers  of  Freedom;  and  by  the  increafed  light 
they  could  difcern,  that  over  the  head  of  him 
from  whom  the  ravenous  birds  expected  food 
was  written  Anarchy;  but  over  that  of  his 
more  terrific  compeer,  they  deeyphered  the  name 
of  Atheism. — Good-intent  ihuddered,  and 
his  hair  erected  itfelf. 

Then  faid  Mr.  Philosophy,  ii  Thus  far  is 
"  well;  thefe  awful  powers  receive  you  as  their 
"  votaries.  Are  you  now  ready  to  join  in  the 
"  facrifice  which  alone  is  wanting  to  render  them 
"  propitious  to  your  defires?" 

"  Inftandy,"  faid  Mr.  Hot-head:  "what 
"  have  we  to  offer  which  can  be  acceptable  to 
"  them?" 

"  Have  you  not  each  a  book,"  faid  Mr.  Phi- 
losophy, "  which  was  given  unto  you  by  a 
"  man  who  called  himfelf  Evangelist?" 

"  We  have,"  replied  the  pilgrims. 

"  That  man,"  relumed  their  conductor,  "  is 
"  the  moil:  inveterate  foe  of  the  Powers  who 
u  prefide  in  this  temple;  and  in  no  lefs  a  degree 
"  is  he  your  enemy  alfo;  fmce  the  chains,  which 
i4  you  fo  difgracefully  wear,  could  not  have  been 


f    44    J 

u  forged  without  his  afliftance.  As  a  token,  then> 
*(  that  you  for  ever  renounce  him  and  his  doc- 
"  trines,  lay  your  books  on  the  altar  before  you, 
"  to  be  confumed  in  that  feif-kindled  flame,  as 
«'  an  offering  to  Atheism;  and  then  let  each 
"  ftep  forward,  and  receive  from  Anarchy  a 
*'  fword  which  hath  no  fheatb,  endowed  with  fo 
"  rare  a  virtue,  that,  in  the  fame  moment  that 
"  you  grafp  it,  your  chains  will  fpontaneoufly 
"  fall  from  your  necks." 

Mr.  Hot-head  immediately  obeyed,  and 
threw  his  book  into  the  midft  of  the  flame:  the 
Lord  Inconsiderate  followed  his  example; 
and  Mr.  Hate-controul,  as  he  did  the  like, 
faid,  "  If  I  hoped  for  no  further  advantage,  I 
*'  fhould  ftill  think  myfelf  a  gainer,  in  being  no 
"  longer  obliged  to  burden  myfelf  with  a  volume 
"  filletl  with  hard  fayings,  and  llatutes  impoflible 
c<  to. to  borne.'' 

The  reft  not  immediately  advancing,  Mr. 
Philosophy  proceeded  in  his  difcourfe. 

Philosophy. — "  You  will  foon  perceive, 
"  that,  by  the  deftru&ion  of  thefe  books,  the 
«  prefent  fyfjem  of  affairs  throughout  the-  whole 
"  world  will  be  annihilated." — 

Mr.  Discontent  came  forward,  and  com- 
mitted his  volume  to  the  flames. — 

Philosophy. — "  A  new  order  of  things  will 
"  every  where  appear." — 


(    45    > 

The  Lord  Love-change  joined  in  the  facri- 
lice. — 

Philosophy. — "  And  thofe,  who  now  cor- 
"  dially  unite  with  each  other  in  the  purfuit  of 
"  their  true  interefts." — 

The  Lord  Party-spirit  prefented  his 
book. — 

Philosophy. — "  Will  fhare,  in  that  reno- 
"  vated  Hate,  the  pure  delight,  which  will  be 
"  imparted  to  them,  not  only  by  the  recovery 
"  of  their  own  freedom,  but  by  the  univerfal 
"  eftablimment  of  the  rights  and  liberties  of  all 
"  mankind." 

The  latter  part  of  this  fpeech  had  been 
addreffed  to  Good-intent  ;  but  he  neither 
advancing,  nor  returning  an  anfwer,  Mr.  Cu- 
riosity prefTed  before  him,  and  accofting  Mr. 
Philosophy:  "  Sir,"  faid  he,  "  the  extraordi- 
"  nary  veneration,  with  which  the  wonders  I 
"  have  feen  at  your  houfe  have  infpired  fcie  for 
"  your  wifdom,  difpofes  me  to  pay  an  implicit 
"deference  to  all  your  counfels;  yet:  before  I 
"  cafl:  my  book  upon  that  flaming  pile,  I  would 
"  gladly  be  fatisfied  by  you  on  one  point.  I 
"  am  aware  that  to  perfons  who  have  the  ho- 
"  nour  to  be  inftrucled  by  you,  thefe  volumes 
w  are  totally  unneceffai  y ;  but  fmce  thofe  of  the 
"  meaner  fort,  who  want  that  advantage,  ftill 
M  {land  in  need  of  fome  rules  for  the  direction,: 


I  46  ) 

**  of  their  conduit,  where — if  thofe  are  deflroyed 
u  to  which  they  have  hitherto  had  recourfe — 
"  where  are  they  to  find  a  fubftituter" 

u  Nothing  can  be  more  eafily  found,"  an- 
fwered  Mr.  Philosophy.  "  Let  them  read 
*  the  Koran  of  Mahomet,  or  the  Zendavefta 
"of  Zoroaster;  or  let  them  feek  a  living 
"  example  of  human  perfection,  undebafed  by 
u  focial  laws,  uncontaminated  by  civilization, 
n  unfettered  by  Chriftian  prejudices,  and  con- 
"  fequently  unftained  by  3ny  crime  more  black 
u  than  occafional  rapine,  fraud,  and  murder,  in 
"  the  virtuous  hordes  of  favage  America" 

"  And  are  Mahomet  and  Zoroaster 
"tthen,"  faid  Mr.  Credulity,  "  perfons  of 
"  as  gFeat  veracity  as  Mr.  Evangelist?" 

M  All  my  difciples  are  of  that  opinion,"  replied 
Mr.  Philosophy. 

*  You  know  thefe  things  better  than  I  do," 
faid  Mr.  Credulity;  and  with  that  he  fol- 
lowed the  example  of  the  reft. 

Mr.  Curiosity  hefitated  a  moment  longer; 
but  pfrefently,  yielding  to  his  impatience  to  fee 
the  wonderful  effects  that  were  to  refult  from 
the  offering,  he  alfo  caft  his  book  into  the 
flames. 

But  the  facrifice  was  not  yet  completed;  for 
the  fpirit  of  Good-iNTENT  was  now  routed  : 
he  faw  with  hxorror  the  conduit  of  his  compa- 


47     ) 


■nions,  and  the  counfels  of  Good-will  ruttied 
fuddenly  on  his  recollection.  Though  the 
things  which  he  had  feen  and  heard  had  made 
e  confiderable  impreflion  on  his  inind,  his  former 
opinions  were  not  fo  far  fhaken  but  that  he 
felt  wiihin  himfelf  a  determination  to  part  ra- 
ther with  his  life  than  with  his  book,  which 
he  was  fenfible  none  but  the  enemies  of  his 
King  would  have  required  him  to  refign;  and 
remembering  that  he  had  been  directed  to  con- 
fult  it  whenever  he  fhould  find  himfelf  under 
any  difficulty,  he  drew  it  forth  from  his  bofom. 
.Mr.  Philosophy,  difpleafed  that  among  the 
men  who  had  followed  him  fo  far,  there  (hould 
be  any  one  who  hefitated  to  obey  his  lafl  com- 
mand, extended  his  hand  to  feize  it;  but  Good- 
intent,  recoiling  from  his  touch,  opened  the 
volume,  and  read  therein,  "  Beware  left  any 
"  man  fooil  you,  through  philofophy  and  vain 
"  deceit." 

"  Alas!"  cried  he,  "  had  I  fooner  reforted  to; 
'"  my  book  for  counfel,  1  fhould  not  have  iuf- 
"  fered  my  felt  to  be  led  hither  to  view  face 
"  to  face  thofe  forms  of  perdition  !  How  great 
"  mull:  have  been  my  fin  in  turning  a  fide  from 
"  the  right  road;  fince  it  has  brought  on  me  the 
"  punimment  which  I  experience  even  in  the 
-'  fight  of  that  mod  dire  of  fiends,  before  whofe 
-;  afpe£t  I  feel  every  high-raifed  hope  die  away  ia 


(     4S     ) 

*  my  bofoml  What  will  become  of  me?  What 
"fhallldo?" 

Then  he  again  opened  his  book,  and  found 
written  therein,  "  Efcape  for  thy  life,  look  not 
"  behind  thee."  Upon  that,  he  made  towards 
the  door,  and  would  have  gone  forth;  but  thofe 
who  had  hitherto  been  his  companions,  unwil- 
ling that  by  his  example  their  own  unrighteous 
deeds  fliould  be  reproved,-  fought  to  detain  him, 
and  to  compel  him  to  do  even  as  they  had  done ; 
but  his  eageraefs  to  efcape  gave-  him  tenfold 
ftrength  ;  and  while  he  was-  ftruggling  with  them, 
Mr.  Philosophy  faid  to  his  adverfaries  with  a 
malicious  fmile,  "  Trouble  not  yourfelves  to  with- 
"  hold  agai rift  his  will  that  weak-fouled  wretch, 
(i  who  is  unfit  to  be  with  you  admitted  to  my 
"  higher  myfteries.  Suffer  him  to  pafs  forth,  to 
%<  meet  the  fate  which  is  prepared  for  all,  who 
"  prefume,  without  my  guidance,  to  tread  the 
*'  mazes  of  my  palace." 

Then  they  flood  back,  and  Good- intent 
impetuoufly  rufhed  out  of  the  temple.  But  little 
caufe  had  he  to  rejoice,  excepting  in  that  he 
was  delivered  from  the  view  of  the  hideous 
form  of  Atheism;  for  the  lamps,  which  had 
enlightened  his  fteps  when  he  had  paffed  that 
way  at  firft,  were  all  extinguished  ;  and  in  the 
thick  obfcurity  which  furrounded  him,  he  foon 
made  a  wrong  turning,  and  loft  hiinfeh\      His 


(     49     ) 

fpirit  now  funk  within  him,  as  he  wandered 
along  dark  and  flippery  ways,  where  he  pro- 
ceeded few  paces  without  (tumbling  over  a  kind 
of  rugged  ftones,  called  in  that  place  Objrftions, 
which  were  every  where  fcattered  about.  The 
air,  moreover,  was  rilled  with  certain  veno- 
mous winged  creatures,  fhaped  like  bats,  which 
were  called  Doubts^  and  did  oftentimes  fting  him 
forely. 

At  laft  he  defcried,  at  a  diftance,  a  fmall  glim- 
mering light,  towards  which  he  joyfully  haftened ; 
and  entering  a  chamber  from  which  it  proceeded, 
he  found  there  a  man,  in  a  changeable-coloured 
garment,  with  a  mafk  on  his  face.  Before  him 
lay  a  book,  like  that  which  Good-intent  had 
fo  zealoully  preferved ;  but  he  was  employed  in 
cutting  out  half  the  leaves  of  it  with  a  knife, 
which  lie  held  in  his  hand;  while,  from  thofe 
which  he  fuffered  to  remain,  he  had  erafed  fo 
many  words,  that  the  refidue  was  no  longer  intel- 
ligible. When  Good- intent  entered,  the  man 
raifed  his  head,  and  afked  him  who  he  was,  and 
what  he  fought  there. 

Good-intent.— "  My  name  is  Good-in- 
"  tent;  I  am  a  pilgrim,  and  was  travelling  to- 
"  wards  the  Celeftial  City,  till  it  was  my  unhappy 
"  lot  to  be  inveigled  into  this  palace,  where  I  have 
"  beheld  the  dreadful  face  of  Atheism.  As  I 
"  fled  from  him,  I  loft  my  way  in  the  dark  paf- 

F 


(    5°    ) 


TT 


u  fages;  and,  till  I  defcried  the  beams  of  your 
"  lamp,  I  was  hopelefs  of  ever  efcaping  from  this 
M  endlefs  labyrinth." 

Thwi  faid  the  man,  "  If  thou  flyeft  from 
"  Atheism,  it  is  well  for  thee  that  thou  art 
"  come  hither.  I  alfo  am  his  enemy ;  and  be- 
"  fide  myfelf,  thou  couldfr.  not  have  found  any 
"  one  able  to  aflift  thy  efcape,  and  to  guide  thee 
"  in  fafety  through  the  intricate  mazes  of  this 
"  palace." 

Good-intent  heard  with  joy  the  difcourfe 
of  the  ftranger;  yet  anxious  to  know  him  bet- 
ter, before  he  entrufted  himfelf  to  his  guidance, 
he  inquired  his  name:  to  which  the  man  re- 
plied that  he  was  called  Rational-chris- 
tianity  ;  "  And  I  myfelf,"  faid  he,  "  am 
"  alfo  a  pilgrim  as  thou  art;  only  I  like  not 
"  to  walk  with  the  herd  of  vulgar  travellers ; 
"  and,  therefore,  to  feparate  myfelf  from  them, 
"  I  came  fome  time  fince  to  take  up  my  abode 
"  under  the  roof  of  Mr.  Philosophy.  But 
"  now,  if  thou  art  willing  to  become  my  com- 
"  panion,  and  to  conform  thy  way  to  my  di- 
"  regions,  I  will  lead  thee  into  a  fafe  and  eafy 
"  path,  by  which,  fooner  than  thou  mayefl  ex- 
"  pedt,  thou  (halt  arrive  at  the  end  of  thy 
"  journey." 

When  Good-intent  heard  the  flranger's 
name,    it    infpired   him   with   great   confidence; 


(  p  ) 

and  not  feeling  any  miftrufr.  of  his  new  compa- 
nion, he  befought  h:tn  imme  J  lately  to  lead  the 
way.  Then  the  man  arofe,  and  taking  his 
lamp  in  one  hand,  and  in  the  other  the  book  out 
of  which  he  had  cut  <o  many  of  the  leaves, 
he  conducted  Good-intent  along  parages,  as 
intricate  as  any  of  thofe  through  which  he  had 
paffed  before;  and  now  they  had  proceeded  fo  far, 
that  the  pilgrim  expected  every  moment  to  reach 
the  end  of  his  fubterranean  way,  and  to  emerge 
from  the  darknefs  in  which  he  had  wandered  fc* 
long,  when  his  conductor  fuddenly  turned  aGde, 
and  brought  him  into  an  apartment  which  was 
faintly  enlightened  by  an  imperfect  beam  of 
clouded  day,  ftreaming  through  a  half-clofed 
iky-light. 

He  here  beheld  enfhrined  a  new  phantom, 
whofe  form  refembled  that  of  the  giant -brood, 
who  were  fabled  to  have  fprung  from  the  earth ; 
yet,  feated  on  a  lofty  throne,  he  looked  proudly 
downwards,  as  from  the  higheft  heavens :  his 
countenance  was  fevere  and  louring ;  and  haughty 
as  it  was,  it  betrayed  a  fecret  anguifli  at  his  in- 
ability to  break  a  crofs,  which  he  held  in  his 
hands,  and  was  exerting  his  utmoft  ftrength  to 
demolifh. 

"  Whither  have  you  brought  me?"  faki 
Good-intent  to  his  conduaor;  "  and  what 
"  unknown  form  do  I  now  behold  ?" 


(      5*       ) 

"  Happy  mortal, "  faid  the  other,  "  who  un- 
"  der  my  guidance  haft  reached  the  dwelling- 
"  place  of  Natural-religion,  bow  thyfelf 
"at  his  {brine,  and  rejoice  that  thy  happy 
"  defuny  has  brought  thee  to  vifit  his  pure 
"  abode!"— 

But  while  he  fpoke,  Goop-iNTENT,  eying 
the  phantom  more  needfully,  difcerned  his  true 
name  written  over  his  head;  and  it  was  Deism. 
Perceiving  then  that  his  conductor  had  a  design 
to  deceive  him,  he  delayed  not  to  draw  forth  his 
book. 

"  What  doest  thou:"  faid  his  guide. 

"  I  feek  for  counfel  where  it  may  be  found,'1 
replied  Good-intent. 

"Thou  meaneft  well,"  faid  the  other;  "  but 
"  how  wilt  thou  be  deceived,  if  thou  putteft  any 
"  truft  in  what;  thou  maycft  find  written  in  that 
"  volume!" 

"  Doth  it  not  contain  the  words  of  truth s'l 
faid  the  pilgrim. 

"  It  doth  indeed  contain  fome  truth,"  au- 
fwered  his  conductor;  "  but  fo  intermixed  with 
"  falfehood,  that  thy  weak  underftanding  cannot 
"  know  how  to  feparate  the  one  from  the  other. 
"  Read  rather  in  my  book.  Mine,  as  thou 
"  feed,  was  once  the  fame  as  thy  own ;  but  I 
"  have  long  employed  myfelf  in  expunging  fuch 
"  parts  of  it  as  were  adverfe  to  my  own  opt- 


(    53    ) 

u  nions,  and  in  d'fcovering  in  the  pages  which  I 
"  have  differed  to  remain  fuch  occult  meanings, 
"  as  had,  for  many  ages,  efcaped  all  vulgar 
"  and  unlearned  eyes ;  and  I  have  at  lad  fo  re- 
"  fined  it  from  its  drofs,  that  even  he,  my  great 
"  mafter,  whom  thou  feeft  before  thee,  permits 
"  his  votaries  to  ufe  it  as  a  code  of  laws  for  the 
"  regulation  of  their  moral  conduct." 

"But  if,"  fard  Good-intent,  "  it  was  de- 
"  fined,  as  I  have  always  been  affured  it  was, 
"  as  a  book  of  general  inftrudtion  for  all  man- 
"  kind,  can  we  imagine  that  the  true  meaning 
"  of  any  efTential  parts  of  it  fhould  be  fo  occult, 
"  as  that  it  mould  have  remained  for  the  in- 
"  quiries  of  the  prefent  age  to  difcover  ?  Me- 
"  thinks  1  could  more  willingly  relinquish  my 
"  book  entirely,  as  I  was  required  to  do  but 
"  now  in  the  temple  of  Atheism,  than  think 
"  fo  unworthily  of  him  who  commanded  us  to 
"  believe  and  to  do  all  things  which  it  fhould 
"  teach  us,  as  to  fuppofe  that  he  fufFered  any 
"  pafiages  to  be  inferted  therein,  for  the  exprefs 
"  purpofe  of  mifleading  fuch  as,  with  honcft 
li  and  true  hearts,  fhould  feek  to  know  his 
«  will."— . 

And   with    that,    pufhing  back  the    mutilated 

volume  which  was  offered  him,  he  opened  his 

own,   and  read,  "  This  is  that  fpirit  of  Anti- 

"  christ,    whereof    you   have  heard    that  it 

F  2 


(    54    ) 


"  fhould  come;  and  even  now  already  it  is  in 
"  the  world." — As  he  read  thefe  words,  (lie 
throne  of  Deism  funk,  and  the  phantom  him- 
felf  difappeared ;  the  fmall  part  of  the  fky-light 
that  had^beeu  open,  fuddenly  clofed,  and  he 
who  bare  the  lamp  fled  away ;  but  as  he  fled  his 
mafk  dropped  off,  and  Good-intent  knew  his 
face,  that  it  was  the  face  of  Heresy.  ^ 

By  the  removal  of  his  lamp,  however,  the 
pilgrim  was  not  left  in  darknefs  as  before;  for 
he  perceived  that,  from  the  book  which  he  fHH 
held  in  his  hand  a  radiance  proceeded,  and 
fhined  round  about  it;  an  afliftance  which  it 
had  not  hitherto  afforded  him,  becaufe  he  had 
carried  it  hidden  in  his  bofom,  without  attempt- 
ing to  make  any  ufe  of  it.  Then  he  remem- 
bered tha,t  it  was  written,  "  Thy  word  is  a 
44  lamp  unto  my  feet,  and  a  light  unto  my 
"  path;"  and,  rejoicing  in  the  hope  which  was 
tjius  revived  in  his  bofom,  he  haftened  out  of 
that  apartment,  and  proceeded  on  his  way. 
Nor  was  he  any  longer  in  danger  of  loimg 
'  himfelf;  for  at  every  turning  a  bright  ray  darted 
from  his  bock,  and  pointed  out  to  him  the  way 
which  he  ihould  take.  Only  he  was  ftiil  molefted- 
by  thofe  venomous  flying- create  res,  which,  though 
they  ftung  him  lefs  forely  tlian,  before,  did  yet 
hover  over  his  head,  and  hi)  his  ears  with  :  < 
noife  of  their   fluttering^;    and.  foinetjnKs. 


(     55     ) 

thering  round  his  book,  they  {haded  it  with- 
their  wings,  and  almost  hid  the  light  from  his 
eyes.  Neverthelefs  he  went  on  with  confi- 
dence; and,  at  lad,  after  climbing  up  a  fteep. 
afcent,  he  found  himfelf  in  a  veflibule,  where 
the  rays  of  the  fun  in  all  their  fplendour  fuddenly 
broke  upon  his  eyes;  the  birds  of  night,  not 
able  to  endure  the  brightnefs,  durft  follow  him 
no  further,  but  flew  back  fcreaming  to  their 
murky  abodes;  and  Goo D: intent  feeing  be- 
fore him  an  open  door,  rufhed  through  it,  and 
with  joy  perceived  that  he  had  efcaped  out  of 
the  palace  of  Mr.  Philosophy. 

The  frefh  air  was  very  pleafant  to  him,  after 
his  long  fubterranean  wanderings;  yet  he  ftaid 
not  to  amufe  himfelf  with  any  inferior  gratifica- 
tions, but  looked  eagerly  round  him  to  difcover 
where  he  was,  and  what  way  he  mull  go  to 
return  to  the  high  road,  his  departure  from  which 
he  fo  forely  repented. 

While  he  was  (landing  to  take  the  view,  he 
wasdefcried  by  a  party  of  Mr.  Philosophy's 
retainers,  who,,  from  a  turret,  beheld  the  plain 
below.  It  was  fo  rare  an  occurrence  to  them  to 
ice  any  who  fled  from  their  matters  palace, 
after  having  once,  confented  to  become  his 
fciioiars  (die  moft  part  remaining  there,  gladly. 
to  enjoy  the  pleafures  of  the  place;  and  the  few 
who  were  defirous  to  depart,  finding  no  means  of 


(    56    | 

effe&ing  their  efcape),  that  Good-intent  was 
unto  thcfe  men  an  object,  of  great  amazement; 
and  fome  of  them  reproached  him  for  quitting  a 
houfe,  where  he  might  meet  with  fo  much 
good  company;  others  called  to  him  to  return; 
and  others,  obferving  the  book  which  he  ftill 
bore  in  his  hand,  mocked  at  him  for  encumber- 
ing himfelf  with  a  burden  which  they  called  fo 
ufelefs,  and  fpake  many  vain  and  blafphemous 
words  againft  him  whofe  laws  it  contained. 
Among  thefe  laft  was  one  named  Ridicule, 
who,  as  it  chanced,  had  a  bow  in  his  hand  ;  and 
obferving  that  Good-intent  heeded  nothing 
that  was  faid  unto  him,  but  was  beginning  to 
run  acrofs  the  plain  with  all  his  fpeed,  he  vain- 
glorioufly  tokl  his  companions  that  he  would 
give  them  a  proof  of  his  (kill  in  archery,  by 
fending  a  dart,  which  mould  (trike  the  book 
out  of  the  young  man's*  hand;  and  with  that, 
he  prefently  fitted  an  arrow  to  the  firing,  and 
drew  the  bow  with  all  his  might.  The  (haft 
flew  through  the  air,  and  grazing  the  hand  of 
Good- intent,  it  (truck  the  book;  but  bound- 
ing inftantly  back  from  it,  fell  with  a  blunted 
point  to  the  ground.  Though  the  fcratch 
which  the  pilgrim  had  received  was  flight,  yet, 
the  dart  having  been  envenomed,  it  gave  him 
extraordinary  pain,  and  had  almoft,  at  the  firft 
moment,   obliged  him  to  drop    the   book;    bus 


(    57     ) 

happily  recollecting  himfelf,  he  exerted  fufficieni 
refolution  to  grafp  the  precious  volume  more 
firmly  than  ever,  and  went  on  his  way,  without 
fo  much  as  turning  to  look  behind  him.  Ne- 
verthelefs,  Ridicule,  being  fhort-fighted,  ima- 
gined that  he  had  feen  his  arrow  transfix  the 
book;  and  when  he  boafted  to  his  compa- 
nions of  his  fuccefs,  even  thofe  among  therh 
who  had  feen  the  event  moft  clearly  were 
afraid  to  contradict  him,  left,  being  offended, 
he  lhould  turn  the  reft  of  his  darts  againft 
themfelves. 

Meanwhile  Good -intent  having  efcaped 
out  of  the  pleafu re-grounds  of  Mr.  Philoso- 
phy, had  at  lad  the  fatisfadtion  to  find  himfelf 
once  more  in  the  high  road,  where  he  ran  for- 
ward without  flackening  his  pace,  till  he  reach- 
ed the  houfe  of  the  good  old  Interpreter. 
There  he  knocked  with  great  violence  at  the 
gate;  and  it  was  prefently  opened  to  him  by 
the  damfel  whofe  name  was  Innocent.  So 
ihe  afked  him  who  he  was. 

"  Alas !"  faid  Good-intent,  "  I  am  one 
"  who  can1  urge  little  claim  to  be  admitted  here, 
"  fince  I  have  fuffered  myfelf  to  be  feduced 
V  from  the  right  way  by  the  wiles  of  Mr. 
"  Philosophy,  and  have  beheld  the  dreadful 
"  myfteries  of  his  palace.  And  though' I  have 
*>  been  fo  fortunate  as  to  efcape  from  his  laby- 


(     58    ) 

"  rinths,  yet  I  know  not  whether  I  may  ftill 
"  prefume  to  prefent  myfelf  at  this  portal,  which 
"  I  am  well  aware  is  only  opened  to  the  faith- 
"  ful  fubjefts  of  that  King  from  whofe  paths  I 
"  have  traiteroufly  ftrayed." 

Then  faid  the  damfel,  "This  gate  is  never 
"  clofed  againft  penitent  and  returning  fmners. 
"  Yet  of  all  who  have  been  enticed  by  Mr. 
"  Philosophy,  I  do  not  recoiled  that  any  one 
"  before  you  has  ever  quitted  him,  and  come  to 
"  feek  admiflion  here.  But  I  pray  you  tell  me 
"  your  name,  and  from  what  place  you  fet  forth 
f*  on  your  pilgrimage,  that  I  may  go  in,  and  {hew 
"  it  unto  my  matter;  and  I  will  then  quickly 
u  return,  and  let  you  know  his  anfwer." 

Then  Good-intent  told  her  who  he  was, 
and  whence  he  came;  and  when  (he  heard  that 
he  was  of  the  l.neage  of  Christian,  fhe 
fmiled,  and  made  the  greater  ha  lie  to  carry  in 
his  petition ;  and  (he  presently  came  back,  to 
let  him  know  that  her  matter  would  willingly 
receive  him.  Then  fhe  led  him  in,  and  brought 
him  to  a  parlour  where  Mr.  Interpreter 
was  fitting.  He  was  a  venerable  old  man,  with 
a  long  white  beard,  that  reached  down  even  to 
his  girdle;  but  none  of  the  infirmities  of  age 
were  yifibie  upon  him,  as  he  who  had  con- 
dueled  the  pilgrim  to  the  houfe  of  Mr.  Philo- 
sophy, had  falfely  reported:    on  the  contrary, 


(    59    ) 
there  was  ftill  a  youthful  fire  in  his  eyes,  and  his 
countenance  vilibiy  expreffed  a  mind  of  undimi- 
aimed  vigour. 

He  received  Good-intent  with  great  be- 
nignity, and  congratulated  him  on  his  efcape 
from  a  place  in  which  fo  many  had  found  their 
ruin.  "  But  tell  me,  young  man,"  faid  he,  "  in 
"  what  manner  didft  thou  fir  ft  come  to  a  know- 
"  ledge  of  thy  danger?  For  the  principal  art  of 
"  him  who  fo  deceitfully  afTumes  my  name  and 
"  office,  confifts  in  concealing  his  defigns  from 
"  fuch  as  he  has  undertaken  to  enfnare,  till  he 
"  has  brought  them  {o  far  in  the  way  which 
M  leadeth  to  perdition,  that  all  means  of  retreat 
"  are  cut  o£F  from  them." 

Good-intent  then  related  to  the  Inter- 
preter all  that  had  befallen  him  in  the  palace 
of  Mr.  Philosophy;  declaring  that,  though 
the  confeioufnefs  that  he  had  quitted  the  right 
road  had  from  the  fir  ft  occafioned  him  fome  un- 
eafinefs,  he  had  not  been  fully  ienfible  that  he 
had  put  himfelf  under  the  guidance  of  one.  who 
was  an  enemy  to  his  Prince,  till  he  had  heard 
him  aflert  thac  Christianity  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Superstition;  which  was  fo  contrary 
to  all  that  had  ever  before  been  told  him  of  her, 
that  he  aflured  himfelf  it  mud  have  been  a 
malicious  calumny;  that  afterwards  the  %ht 
of  die   dreadful   phantoms   in   the  black  temple 


(     6o     ) 

had  fo  greatly  difmayed  him,  that  had  he  been 
obliged  to  make  any  longer  flay  there,  he  muft 
certainly  have  died  with  terror ;  and  he  con* 
eluded  by  exprefling  his  gratitude  to  his  King, 
to  whofe  merciful  prefervation  of  him  he  wholly 
attributed  his  efcape. 

Then  faid  the  Interpreter,  "  You  can 
"  never  return  him  fufficient  acknowledgments 
*"  for  fo  great  and  fignal  a  favour.  But  while  you 
"  are  thus  declaring  the  due  fenfe  you  enter- 
"  tain  of  it,  what  is  the  reafon  that  your  coun- 
*'  tenance  fo  ill  agrees  with  vour  words?  For 
<{  methinks  you  look  more  like  a  man  who  is 
"  labouring  under  fome  prefent  grievance,  than 
u  like  one  whofe  mind  is  properly  affected  with 
"  a  recent  benefit." 

Good-intent. — "Alas,  Sir!  notwithftand-  ^ 
11  ing  my  fatisfaclion  at  having  returned  to  the 
"  high  road,  I  cannot  deny  that  my  fpirits  are 
"  ftill  much  dejected.  Though  I  chofe  rather  to 
"  continue  to  wear  the  chains  with  which  I  am 
"  laden  than  to  rcfort  to  Atheism  and  Anar- 
"  chy  for  my  releafe  ;  yet-  the  fight  which  has 
"  been  afforded  me  of  my  own  flavifh  condition 
"  has  rendered  my  very  life  a  burden  to  me. 
"  Cannot  you,  Sir,  tell  me  of  any  means  by 
"  which  I  may  be  delivered  ? — I  am  likewife  in 
"  great  pain  from  the  flings  of  thofe  venomous 
"  creatures,   which  fo  forely  molefled  me,  as  I 


(    61    ; 

"  was  wandering  in  Mr.  Philosophy's  dark 
"  mazes,  and  from  the  bruifes  I  received  in  the 
"  fails  I  there  met  with;  alfo  I  feel  an  intolerable 
"  fmart  from  the  wound,  flight  as  it  appeared, 
"  which  was  inflicted  on  my  hand  by  the  arrow 
"  of  him  who  did  moot  at  me  from  the  turret 
¥  as  I  was  making  my  efcape." 

Interpreter.-— "As  for  the  flings  and  bruifes, 
"  and  the  wound  of  which  you  complain,  none 
"  do  ever  enter  the  houfe  of  Mr.  Philosophy, 
u  unlefs  they  be  clad  in  armour  of  proof  from 
"  the  armoury  of  our  King,   without  receiving 

*  many  fuch  hurts  as  thofe,  if  nothing  worfe 
"  befal  them  j  and  at  prefent  you  muft  be  con- 
Si  tented    to    bear    them    with    patience,    though 

*  hereafter  I  may  be  able  to  provide  you  fome 
"  remedy  for  them.  But  as  for  the  chains  which 
"  fo  greatly  trouble  you,  I  pray  you  mew  them 
"  to  me." 

"  I  do  not  now  perceive  them  myfelf,"  faid 
Good-intent. 

"  You  however  feel  them,"  faid  the  Inter, 

PRETER. 

"  I  cannot  fay  I  do,"  anfwered  the  young 
man;  «  yet  methought  their  weight  d,d  mightily 
"  opprefs  me,  while  I  viewed  them  in  the  mirror 
"  of  him  who  was  called  Rights-of-man." 

"  You  will  probably  be  more  fenfible  of  them 
"  when  you  move,"  faid  the  Interpreter. 

G 


T    62    ) 

'VRife  up  and  walk,  and  prove  whether  there  be 
"  any' bonds  which  reftrain  your  limbs.', 

Then  Good- intent  arofe;  but  whether  he 
turned  himfelf  to  the  right-hand,  or  to  the  left, 
he  could  not  obferve  ;that  any  thing  drew  him 
back,  or  deprived  him  of  the  liberty  to  walk 
or  move  which  way  foever  he  chofe.  "  It  is 
V  true,  Sir,"  faid.be  at  laft,  "  that  I  cannot  now 
"  perceive  pjyfelfi  to  be  in  any  bondage;  but  I 
"  remember  Mr.  Philosophy  told  me  that  the 
"  two  giants,-  who  had  enflaved  the  whole  world, 
"  were  able  alfo,  by  the  r  m  ignz  art,  to  render 
"  their  cap.ives  infenlible  ot  their  own  condition; 
"  and  I  am  probably  again  under  the  influence  of 
<c  that  force rv,  fi  nee  I  can  no  longer  difcover 
;'  the  chains  which  were  fo  plainly  (hewn  me  in 
(i  thr  ::ul  mirror." 

"  And  uvt  thou  ft  ill  fo  blind.''  faid  the  In- 
terpreter, "  that  thou.canft  not  difcern  to 
"  whom  the  imputation  of  magic  belongs?  If 
"  thou  wert  indeed  chained,  as  thine  enemy 
"  would  have  perfuaded  theeylyet  while  thy  bonds 
"  were  invifible,  and  did  no  way  reftrain  thy 
"  freedom  in  a6lion,  it  would  be  difficult  to  fay 
M  wherein  the  grievance  did  confift;  but,  in  fa£f, 
"  this  is  nothing  more  than  one  of  thofe  vain 
u  fhadows,  with  which  Philosophy,  hi  . 
"  the  moft  powerful  of  magicians,  doth  ufe 
!*  delude  thofe  who  have  fallen  into  his  fna 


(     63     ) 

u  to  the  end  that,  reforting  to  him  for  deliver- 
"  ance  from  an  imaginary  bondage,  they  may 
"  fall  into  a  real  one,  and  fo  become  the  inftru- 
"  ments  of  the  horrible  defjgns  he  has  formed  for 
"  the  fubverfion  of  every  thing  which  mankind 

V  hath  hitherto  been  accuftomed  to  hold  in  re- 
"  verence.  But  the  love  thou  haft  (hewn  for  thy 
"  King,  by  refolutely  quitting  the  abode  of  his 
"  enemy,  in  defpite  of  all  the  obftacles  which 
"  were  oppofed  to  thy  efcape,  renders  thee  wor- 
"  thy  that  the  falfe  impreflions  which  thefe  for- 
"  ceries  have  made  on  t>.y  mind  fhould  be  re- 
"  moved,  and  that  thou  fhouldft  be  fhewn  that 
"  thy  temporal  as  well  as  thy  eternal  interefts 
"  can  only  be  fecured  by  a  conduct,  in  every 
"  refpedl:  the  reverfe  of  that  to  which  Philoso- 
"  phy  impels  his  votaries.  I  will,  therefore,  ex- 
"  plain  to  thee,  in  order,  all  that  did  befal  thee, 
"  from  the  time  when  thou  wert  firfl:  perfuaded 
"  by  thy  dangerous  companion,  Curiosity,  to 
"  tafte  of  the  ft  ream  of  Vain-research,  which 
"iffues  from  the  fountain  of  Presumption", 
"  and  empties  itfelf  into  the  boundlefs  iea  of  Er- 

V  ror.  Mr.  Philosophy,  finding  that  dream 
"  poffeflfed  fuch  qualities  as  might  render  it  of 
*;  confiderable  ufe  to  him  in  his  attempts  to  mif- 
'•  lead  pilgrims,  was  at  a  great  expenfe  in  turning 
4i  it  acrofs  the  high  road ;  its  original  courie 
*  having  lain  very  wide  therefrom:   and  the  ex- 


(    64    ) 

*  traordinary  darknefs  which  came  upon  your 
11  whole  company,  is  one  of  the  effe&s  which 
M  are  ufually   experienced  by   thofe   who  drink 

*  of  its  waters.  You  thus  laid  yourfelves  open 
*■  to  the  attacks  of  your  enemy;  aud  having 
"  but  a  few  moments  before  walked  in  fafety 
"  by  the  light  o{  heaven,  you  became  glad  to 
"  follow  the  dim  taper  which  he  had  fent  to  guide 
"  you  to  your  ruin.  As  for  the  account,  which 
"  was  given  you  by  the  way,  of  Mr.  Philo- 
•*i  sophy  himfelfj  his  very  appearance  might 
"have  convinced  you  of  its  falfhood;  for  you 
"  could  not  but  fee  that  his  face  wore  no  traces 

*  of  that  venerable  age  to  which  he  pretends. 
"  In  truth,  there  was  one  who  bore  the  fame 
U  name,  and  who  lived  in  Greece  about  three 
"  thoufand  years  ago;  but  with  him  this  im- 
"  poftor  hath  not  even  any  affinity ;  only  he 
"coveteth  to  wear  robes  of  the  fame  fafhion, 
"  and  to  mimic  the  tones  of  his  voice.  Neither 
"  are  his  parents  fuch  as  he  pretends.  Reason 
"  indeed  will  fometimes,  when  he  is  intoxicated, 
"call  him  his  fon;  but  when  he  is  fober,  he 
"  conftantly  denies  that  he  is  in  any  way  con- 
"  nedled  with  him;  and  as  for  Nature,  whom 
"  he  would  claim  for  his  mother,  me  never  faw 
"  him.  His  true  father  is  no  other  than  Luci- 
«  fer,  from  whom  he  inheriteth  his  pride,  and 
«  his   rebellious   fpirit;    but   his   mother   was   a 


(    65    I 

M  mortal  nymph,  called  Nonsense;  and  by  her 
"  he  was  firfi:  inftrudted  in  the  doctrines,  which 
u  now  he  teacheth  to  the  world.  As  for  thofe 
"  fcholars  of  his,  whofe  labours  he  commended 
"  to  you  in  his  academy,  they  are  of  the  number 
"  of  thofe,  of  whom  it  long  fince  was  faid,  '  that 
"  there  fhould  come  in  the  laffc  days  fc offers, 
"  who  of  this  fhould  willingly  be  ignorant,  that, 
"  by  the  word  of  God,  the  heavens  were  of 
"  old,  and  the  earth,  ftar/Shg  out  of  the  water, 
"  and  in  the  water ;  whereby  the  world  that  then 
"  was,  being  overflowed  with  water,  perimed; 
"  but  the  heavens  and  the  earth,  which  are  row; 
"  by  the  fame  word  are  kept  in  ft  ore,  referved 
"  unto  fire,  againft  the  day  of  judgment,  and 
"  perdition  of  ungodly  men.'  Therefore  do  they 
"  vaunt  themfelves,  as  if,  by  their  pretended  dif- 
"  coveries,  both  the  hiftory  and  tradition  of  pan; 
"  ages  could  be  fet  afide ;  as  if,  by  their  wif- 
*  dom,  a  world  could  be  made,  and  life  and  a 
"  reafonable  foul  infufed  into  the  creatures  which 
"  mould  inhabit  it,  without  the  intervention  of 
"  an  almighty  agent ;  and  as  if,  by  their  coun- 
"  fels,  this  mortal  could  be  taught  to  put  on  im- 
<;  mortality,  without  the  affiftance  of  Him,  who 
li  only  '  hath  power  to  change  our  vile  bodies* 
"  that  they  may  be  fafhioned  like  unto  His  glo- 
"  rious  body,  according  to  the  working  whereby 
"  He  is  able  even  to  fubdue  all  things  unto  him* 

G  2 


(     66    ) 


'•  felf.' — But  I  know  that  you  now  are  weary 
"  and  faint  in  your  fpirit,  through  the  toils  and 
"  terrors  which  you  have  this  day  undergone; 
"  and  it  will  be  expedient  for  you  at  prefent  to 
"  take  fome  refreshment,  by  which  your  ftrength 
"may  be  revived.  I  will  therefore  defer  ex- 
V  pounding  to  you  the  true  meaning  of  the  fights 
u  which  you  afterwards  beheld,  until  to-morrow 
*  morning;  when,  as  fome  of  my  windows  look 
"  the  fame  way  witlt*  thofe  of  Mr.  Philoso- 
"  phy,  I  (hall  be  able  to  give  you  a  better  view 
"  of  thofe  things,  which  he  deceivingly  (hewed 
"  unto  you." 

With  that  the  Interpreter  arofe,  and  tak- 
ing Good- intent  by  the  hand,  he  led  him  into 
another  apartment,  where  a  plentiful  fupper  was 
provided ;  not  indeed  compofed  of  fuch  far-fetched 
dainties  as  the  pilgrim  had  been  regaled  with  at 
the  banquet  of  his  former  hoft,  but  of  meats 
much  more  nourishing  and  healthful;  and  after 
he  had  eaten  a  fufficiency,  he  was,  by  the  In- 
terpreter's order,  conducted  to  the  chamber 
appointed  for  his  lodging,  where  he  enjoyed  a 
comfortable  repofe. 

In  the  morning,  as  foon  as  he  had  break  fa  (led, 
Mr.  Interpreter  took  him  to  a  window, 
from  which  he  had  a  light  of  the  common, 
whereon  flood  the  company  of  naked  men ; 
but  Good-intent,   being  now   much   oea 


(    6;    ) 

to  them  than  he  had  been  placed  before,  could 
difcern  great  mifery  in  their  countenances;  for 
each  man  was  more  intent  on  obtaining  the 
mattery  over  the  reft,  than  on  providing  for 
himfelf  thofe  things  whereof  he  was  the  mod:  m 
need ;  and  if  any  one  fuffered  wrong  from  ano- 
ther, he  had  no  better  refource  than  to  return 
that  injury  by  a  new  one;  for -they  were  go- 
verned by  no  laws,  neither  was  there  any  judge 
by  whom  the  weak  could  be  protected  from 
him  that  was  too  ftrong  for  him;  fo  that 
every  man's  hand  was  againft  his  neighbour, 
until  he  who  was  called  Social-order  ap- 
peared amongft  them.  At  his  approach  their 
dilcord  ceafed ;  and  though  he  beftowed  not  his 
favours  equally,  yet  even  thofe  for  whom  he 
did  the  leafk  were  manifeftly  in  a  better  fitua- 
tion  than  they  had  been  before  his  arrival ;  if 
he  had  clothed  them  but  in  rags,  they  had  rea- 
fon  to  be  thankful,  fmce  before  they  had  been 
naked  •  and  if  they  were  conftrained  to  labour 
for  the  rich,  that  labour  fupplied  them  with 
food  for  themfelves,  for  want  of  which  they  had 
before  been  ftarving.  Moreover,  Good-in- 
tent law  that  many  of  thofe  who  had  abun- 
dance gave  freely  thereof  to  fuch  as  were  hi 
need  ;  that  no  man  durft  any  more  attempt  to 
do  wrong  unto  another,  becaufe  Social-or- 
der   was  ready  to  take   the  part  of  every  one 


(    68    ) 

who  was  oppreffed  ;  and  that  of  thofe,  who  af 
fijil  had  been  placed  in  the  meaneft  flations> 
tliere  were  many  who,  by  their  induftry  and  pru- 
dent conduct,  obtained  places,  from  time  to  time, 
among  thofe  who  held  the  higheft  ranks ;  while 
there  were  others  who,  at  firft,  had  been  gor- 
geoufiy  clcthed,  but  who,  as  they  wafted  their 
fubftance  by  riotous  living,  were  obliged  to  ex- 
change their  coftly  garments  for  the  rags  which 
the  others  had  caft  off. 

"  What  thinkeft  thou  now,"  faid  the  Inter- 
preter to  Good-intent;  "  whether  of  the 
tl  two  is  preferable  ?  The  ftate  of  favage  man, 
"  where  every  individual,  co;ifcious  of  no  de- 
"  pendance  on  his  fellows,  lives  but  for  himfelf; 
"  where,  confequcntly,  he  can  attain  no  advaut- 
."  ages,  but  fuch  as  his  own  limited  abilities  can 
"  procure  him;  and  where  the  conftant  infecurity 
1  'of  property  confines  ail  enjoyment  within  the 
"  pre  fen  t  moment,  and  fuffers  no  bright  profpedt 
"  of  futurity  to  enlarge  or  ennoble  the  mind. — or 
"  that  (late  of  things  which,  under  die  direction 
*'  of  a  benign  Providence,  has  been  introduced 
■"  by  Social-order?  Of  perfection  this  world 
"  is  not  the  feat;  of  the  wifefk  human  inftitu- 
"  tions  it  is  therefore  eafy  to  difcover  the  defects. 
"  The  only  fair  method  of  judging,  is  to  com- 
"  pare  the  benefits  with, the  inconveniences  which 
/ult  from  them;  but  to  that  end,  it  is  neceiL 


(    69    ) 

"  to  view  them  in  all  their  parts ;  and  it  is  there- 
"  fore  one  chief  artifice  of  Mr.  Philosophy 
"  to  permit  his  pupils  to  behold  but  on  one  fide 
"  the  objects  which  he  prefents  to  them.  Where 
"  there  is  a  gradation  of  ranks,  the  occafional 
"  exaltation  of  the  unworthy,  and  depreilion  of 
"  the  meritorious,  rauft,  among  human  creatures, 
"  be  unavoidable ;  yet,  even  in  the  moft  corrupt 
"  times,  fuch  abufes  will  not  be  univerfal,  fi  nee 
"  moft  of  the  grolTer  vices  naturally  lead  to  po- 
"  verty  ancj  contempt,  while  godlinefs  hath  '  the 
"  promife  of  the  life  that  now  is,  as  well  as  of 
"  that  which  is  to  come;'  and  when  this  work! 
"  fhall  pafs  away,  and  that  which  is  peifec"!  fhall 
"  fucceed  it,  then  fhall  it  evidently  appear  that  all 
"  things,  whether  happy  or  calamitous  in  their 
u  prefent  afpedt,  (hall  alike  have  worked  together 

for  good  to  thofe  who  have  loved  and  obeyed 
"  their  celeftial  King.'* 

"  I  am  infinitely  beholden  to  you,  Sir,"  faid 
Good-intent,  "  for  having  fet  me  right  on  a 

point  fo  important  as  this.  I  now  perceive 
"  how  much  I  was  mifled  by  that  imperfect  view 
V  which  Mr.  Philosophy  afforded  me;  and 
"  that  Social-order,  whom  he  reprefented  as 
"  the  author  of  all  the  evils  of  this  world,  is,  in 
"  facl:,  man's  trueft  benefaflor.  But,  I  pray  you, 
"  let  us  proceed  a  little  farther.  I  furely  could 
4i  not  be  equally  wrong  in  the  judgment  I  formed 


(     7°    ) 

<*  refpe£ting  the  next  fight  which  was  ftiewn  unto 
V  us;  in  the  abhorrence  I  felt  at  that  terrible  pri- 
■"  fon,  nor  in  my  zealous  admiration  of  her  who 
"  overthrew  its  walls." 

"  I  do  not  blame  you,"  fa'id  the  Interpre- 
ter, "  for  the  opinions  which  you  were  led  to 
"  entertain  on  that  fubjeft;  yet  I  will  rtiew  you 
"  that  even  there  you  formed  your  judgment  too 
«  nattily."— 

And  with  that  he,  led  the  pilgrim  to  another 
place,  from  which  they  had  a  view  of  the  tower; 
Good-intent  again  beheld  it  with  indignation,* 
but  the  Interpreter  bade  him  look  around, 
and  he  faw  on  every  fide  good  dwe'ling-houfes, 
and  flourishing  lands;  till  (he  who  was  called 
Liberty  came,  and  overthrew  the  tower;  when, 
behold,  as  it  fell,  the  earth  opened  to  receive  it, 
and  where  it  once  had  flood,  the  pilgrim  now 
faw  a  lake  of  blood,  whence  prefently  flowed  a 
ftream,  which  deluged  all  the  country  round.  The 
fruitful  fields  were  no  longer  to  be  feen;  and  as 
Liberty,  now  rifen  to  a  gigantic  height,  italked 
proudly  through  the  crimfon  flood,  every  houfe  at 
her  approach  changed  its  form,- and  became  a" 
dungeon,  more  black  and  more  noifome  than 
the  tower  had  been  which  fhe  had  overthrown; 
and  inftead  of  the  few  prifoners  who  had  been 
confined  in  that  tower,  Good-intent  now  per- 
ceived, that  half  the  inhabitants  of  the  laud,   \ 


(    7'     J 

groans   which   pierced   his   foul,    mourned   their 
hopelefs  captivity. 

"  O,  Sir  P'  cried  the  pilgrim,  "  what  am  I  to 
"  underftand  hy  this?  Can  this  be  the  work  of 
"  Liberty?" 

u  Not,  affuredly-,  of  true  Liberty,"  faid  the 
Interpreter,  "  who  is  a  very  different  per- 
"  fonage  from  her  whom  Mr.  Philosophy  and- 
n  his  followers  think  proper  to  call  fuch.  True 
"  Liberty  is  of  celeftial  origin;  fhe  is  the  in- 
"  feparaMe  companion  of  Good- government, 
t;  arid  href  chi'dren  are  Property,  Security, 
"and  Public- happiness;  hut  this'  faife  pre- 
"  tender  to  her  nafcite  is  the  filter  of  the  fiend 
"  An'archy,  by  whom  fhe  is  fent  forth,  to  en- 
"  deavour,  by' her  enticing  words,  and  her  magic 
"  power,  to  reduce  the  whole  under  his  dominion. 
"  And  through  the  folly  and  wicked nefs  of  man, 
"  and  his  reftlefs  fpirir,  ever  given  to  change,  her 
"  conquers  already  have  been  great;  infomuch 
'"  that  we  have  feen  her  "'  as  God,  fitting'  in  the 
"  temple  or  God.?  Nay,  though  wherever  fhe 
"  has  come,  the  effecls  of  her  prefence  have 
"  been  fuch  as  you  have  now  beheld,  the  eyes  of 
{'  the  fimple  ones  are  not  yet  opened;  and  there 
"  are  even  thofe  who  would  gladly  expel  from 
"  among  them  the  true  and  friendly  Liberty, 
"  that  they  might  give  her  place  to   this  pen::* 


(       72       ) 

U  cious  fhadow.  But  be  not  thou  of  their  nun> 
*'  ber ;  remembering  that  of  fuch  it  was  long 
tl  11  nee  written,  '  while  they  promife  you  Li- 
*?  berty,  they  themfelves  are  the  fervants  of  Cor- 
"  ruption." 

Good- intent  affured  the  Interpreter 
that  what  he  hail  feen  would  fufficiently  fecure 
him  againft  the  perfuafions  of  all  who  fought 
to  eftablim  the  empire  of  Anarchy,  through 
the  deceits  of  the  forcerefs  his  lifter.  "  But* 
'"  Sir,"  added  he,  "  what  you  have  (hewn  me 
m  concerning  thefe  two  laft  fights  has  rendered 
1*  me  fo  irmch  the  more  impatient  to  hear  what 
*'  you  will  tell  me  of  the  next;  which  was  the 
"  firft:  thing  of  all  that  I  met  with  in  the  pa- 
"  lace  of  Mr.  Philosophy,  whence  I  derived 
"  any  fufpicion  that  I  was  among  thofe  who 
**  were  the  enemies  of  my  King ;  and  though 
"  from  that  moment  I  ceafed  to  give  implicit 
"  credit  to  all  he  faid,  yet  do  I  feel  that  your 
"  explanations  are  very  neceffary  to  fet  my  mind 
Xi  at  eafe,  and  to  relieve  it  from  the  evil  impref- 
"  lion  which,  contrary  to  my  will*  he  made  on 
"  it." 

The  Interpreter,  gladly  complying  with 
his  requeft,  then  led  him  away  to  another 
place,  whence  they  could  fee  the  woman  who 
wore  on  her  breafl  the  bloody  crofs,   exulting 


(    73    ) 

over  the  aflies  of  thofe  who  had  been  confirmed  by 
the  flame  which  proceeded  out  of  her  mouth. 

"  In  this  fcene,"  faid  the  Interpreter* 
"  more  clearly  than  in  any  other,  may  be  traced 
"  the  wiles  of  him  who  fought  your  deftruftion. 
"  He  could  not  have  devifed  more  efFe£tual 
**  means  to  engage  you  in  that  pretended  war, 
"  which  he  profefles  to  wage  againfl  Super- 
$*  stition  and  Despotism,  than  by  (hewing 
"  you,  in  all  their  horrors,  the  deeds  of.  this 
"  execrable  wretch,  who  is,  indeed,  as  he  told 
4i  you,  the  daughter  of  Superstition,  and  to 
"  whom  Despotism  has  frequently  delegated 
*'  his  power;  but  whereas  he  would  have  per- 
"  fuaded  you,  that  in  this  deformed  and  cruel 
¥  monfter  you  beheld  the  figure  of  Chris ti- 
"  ANITY,  caft  your  eyes  upward,  and  fee  whe- 
<;  ther  there  be  even  any  fhadow  of  refemblance, 
"  fuch  as  could  deceive  the  mod  unwary." 

Then  Good-intent  looked  up,  and  he  be- 
held, feated  above  the  clouds,  another  female  figure, 
who  in  her  appearance  bore  the  afpecl  of  an 
angel  of  light,  and  the  excellence  of  whofe  beauty 
aftonifhed  the  eyes  of  all  who  were  able  fteadily 
to  look  upon  her.  Celeftial  love,  firm  faith,  and 
^cfbtic  hope^  beamed  on  her  countenance;  and 
m  her  hand  (he  bore  a  banner,  whereon  was 
infcribed,  "  Glory  to  God  in  the  higheft,  and 
V  on  earth  peace  and  good  will  towards  men/* 

H 


(     74    ) 

Good-intent  gazed  enraptured  on  the  glori- 
ous vition;  and  the  Interpreter  again  addref- 
fing  him,  "  She  whom  thou  now  feeft,"  faid  he, 
^  is  Christianity;  and  fuch  as  flie  now  ap- 
"  pears  to  thee  has  fhe  ever  been ;  for  her  hea- 
"  verily  fubftance  is  fufceptible  of  no  change  nor 
f  decay.  But  {he  who  fits  below,  whofe  true 
"  name  is  Persecution,  has  ever  been  her 
"  moft  inveterate  foe.  When  Christianity 
"  raft  appeared  to  blefs  mankind,  the  whole  race 
4<  of  Superstition  openly  took  arms  againft 
k<  her,  and  ftrove  to  drive  her  back  to  her  native 
"  abodes;  but  when,  in  defpite  of  fuch  enemies, 
"  Iiir  power  prevailed,  they  foon  feigned  them- 
'*  felves  her  fervants,  affumed  her  enfigns,  and 
"  pretended  her  authority  even  for  the  {laughter 
"  of  her  own  moft  faithful  friends;  and  latterly, 
"  as  thou  haft  already  heard,  her  very  name  has 
"  been  aft ri bed  to  this  fiend  Persecution,  by 
V  ihofe  vsiio  fet  their  mouth  againft  the  hea- 
\*  vens,  and  who  hope  under  that  pretence,  to 
"  acccmplilh  their  treacherous  deiigns  againft 
"  her. — But  look  attentively,  and  fee  what  fol- 
"  lows.'' 

Then  Good-intent  looked,  and  behold  ! 
Christianity  fpread  her  wings,  and  defcend- 
ed  towards  them  in  all  her  brightnefs:  as  {lie 
approached,  the  earth  feemed  to  feel  her  influence, 
and  all  things  that  were  on  it  to  rejoice  in  her 


{    75    ) 

prefence.  Averting  her  eyes,  left  they  fhould 
be  polluted  bv  the  fight  of  her  enemy's  cruelties* 
ihe  alighted  on  the  ground ;  and  as  (lie  waved 
her  banner,  every  veftige  of  horror  quickly  va- 
niihed  away;  and  Persecution  herfelf,  drop- 
ping the  white  garments  which  (he  had  worn 
but  to  defile  them,  and  the  facred  enfign  which 
her  crimes  had  occafioned  the  ignorant  to  blaf- 
pheme,  and  appearing  in  all  her  native  deformity, 
fled,  pale  and  trembling,  from  the  face  of  the 
offended  power.  Then  Good-intent  looked 
to  fee  whither  fhe  would  betake  herfeif;  and 
much  was  he  furprized  to  perceive  that  fhe  went 
flraight  to  the  houfe  of  Air.  Philosophy  ;  and 
behold!  Mr.  Philosophy  himfclf  came  forth 
to  meet  her;  and  having  comforted  and  embraced 
her,  he  put  into  her  hand  a  phial,  of  which, 
when  fhe  had  drunk  the  concerns,  her  ftrength 
and  boldnefs  were  renewed.  Then  he  clothed 
her  in  other  garments;  and  having  put  a  fword 
into  her  hand,  he  fent  her  forth  to  renew  her 
opprefTions  over  the  face  of  all  the  world. 

"  What  am  I  to  think  of  this:"  faid  Good- 
intent;  "  Is  it  pofllble  that  Mr.  Philosophy 
"  can  have  entered  into  league  with  her  whofe 
"  bloody  deeds  appeared  to  have  infpired  him  with 
"  fo  much  horror  r" 

"  He  will  teach  her  to  refine  on  all  her  for* 


(     76    J 

"  mer  cruelties,"  replied  the  Interpreter  j 
•'  for,  however  he  might  inveigh  againft  her, 
"  while  he  pretended  to  confider  her  as  the  mi- 
*'  nifter  of  your  King,  he  was  all  the  time  well 
"aware  how  valuable  her  afliftance  -  might  be 
u  rendered  to  his  own  defigns.  He  has  now, 
u  therefore,  engaged  her  in  his  fervice ;  and  where 
•<  his  arts  fhall  not  avail,  he  will  entruft  to  her 
*'  the  advancement  of  his  caufe,  and  the  propa- 
"  gation  of  his  doctrines." 

H  But  furely  they  will  not  be  permitted  long 
*  to  triumph,"  faid  Good-intent. 

u  It  is  not  my  office,"  faid  the  Interpre- 
ter, "  to  declare  to  you  the  times  and  the  fea- 
"  fons,  which  are  not  yet  made  known  unto> 
•*  men.  For  the  trial  of  the  faith  of  the  righte- 
"  ous  are  thefe  things  permitted  on  the  earth; 
*'  and  he  who  fhall  endure  unto  the  end,  the  fame 
"  (hall  be  faved.  Wherefore,,  be  thou  vigilant; 
"  and  neither  fuffer  thyfelf  to  be  again  feduced 
"  out  of  the  right  path  by  deceitful  words,  nor 
"  to  be  terrified  into  a  wrong  one  through  any 
"  apprehenfion  of  the  cruelty  of  Persecution, 
"  mould  it  fall  to  thy  lot  to  be  aflaulted  by  her; 
*'  remembering  by  what  authority  thou  haft  been 
*'  forewarned  *  not  to  be  afraid  of  them  that 
"  kill  the  body,  and  after  that  have  no  more 
"  that  they  can  do  :*  feeing  that  He  only  ought 


(    77    ) 

"  to  be  the  object  of  thy  fear,  who,  i  after 
"  he  hath  killed,  hath  power  alfo  to  caft  into 
"  hell." 

Now  I  faw  in  my  dream,  that  though  Good- 
intent  was  grieved  at  the  thought  of  the  evils 
which  were  coming  upon  the  world,  he  was  yet 
much  comforted  in  his  mind  by  the  view  which 
had  been  afforded  him  of  the  true  form  of  Chris- 
tianity ;  and  having  followed  his  conductor  to 
another  place,  the  Interpreter  there  put  a 
glafs  into  his  hands,  and  bade  him  view  through 
that  the  fcene  before  him. 

"  It  is  a  glafs,"  faid  he,  "  which  was  made  by 
"  no  other  than  Mr.  Philosophy  himfelf;  and 
"  through  fuch  glades  as  thefe  did  you  all  behold 
"  that  laft  fcene  on  which  your  enemy  particu- 
"  larly  depended  for  the  accompli  foment  of  his 
"  purpofe.  It  is  true  you  perceived  them  not; 
"  for  they  were  by  magic  art  fufpended  in  the  air 
"  before  you,  and  their  tranfparency  rendered 
Xi  them  invifible  to  your  eyes ;  and  it  is  in  order 
"  to  enable  you  to  judge  of  their  deceitful  effects, 
"  that  I  defire  you  now  to  ufe  one  of  the  fame 
"  kind." 

Good-intent  then  looking  through  the  glafs, 
faw  that  numerous  company  of  men  who  were 
feemingly  fo  happy  in   their  captivity;  .with  the 
two  deformed  giants,  whofe  chains  they  wore, 
H  2 


t    78    ) 

"  Now  lay  afide  that  falfe  glafs,"  faid  the  In- 
terpreter, "  and  look  again." 

So  he  looked  again,  and  behold  a  different 
profpedfc  prefented  itfelf  to  his  eyes.  Inftead  of 
the  two  giants,  he  now  faw  two  grave  and  vene- 
rable perfonages,  whofe  whole  refemblance  to 
them  confided'  in  that  one  wore  a  crown,  and  the 
other  a  mitre:  moreover,  the  people  no  longer 
appeared  opprefTed  with  any  bonds;  hut  while 
they  lived  in  profpcrity  and  peace,  occupied  with 
their  farms  and  with  their  merchandize,  a  certain 
numbeF,  fome  deputed  by  their  fellows,  and  fome 
called  forward  by  their  prince,  affembled  round 
him  who  wore  the  crown,  and  fat  with  him  in 
council,  to  deliberate  on  the  meafures  requifite  to 
be  taken  for  the  benefit  of  the  whole  commu- 
nity: while  he  who  wore  the  mitre  affirmed  no 
controul  over  the  reft,  but  was  occupied  in  ih- 
Uru&ing  them  with  brotherly  kindnefs,  in  the 
duties  they  owed  to  their  Creator  and  to  each 
other;  fervently  praying  to  Him  who  evermore 
ruleth  in  the  heavens  for  his  blcflings  on  them 
all. 

"  Such  as  thou  feeft,"  faid  Mr.  Interpre- 
ter, "  is  the  ft  ate  of  thofe  who  are  fubje£t 
*  to  Lawful-government  and  Chu*rch- 
**  establishment;  thofe  two  venerable  per- 
"  fons,   who,    viewed   through   Mr.    Philoso- 


(  79  ) 
«  PHY's  glafs,  appeared  to  thee  in  the  gigantic 
"forms  of  Despotism  and  Superstition; 
"  monfters,  who  have  indeed  committed  the  moft 
"  deplorable  ravages  in  the  earth,  and  whofe  very 
"  names  are  therefore  calculated  to  infpire  hor- 
"  ror  ;  but  who  have  long  fmce  been  driven  far 
"  from  the  regions  through  which  thou  and  thy 
"  fellow  pilgrims  have  to  travel ;  and  if  ever  they 
"  refume  their  empire,  they  will  owe  it  to  Mr. 
'*  Philosophy  himfelf ;  who,  by  fubverting  the 
"  authority  of  thofe  who  now  maintain  order 
"  in  the  world,  will  leave  the  nations  an  eafy 
"  prey  to  thefe  cruel  invaders,  who  will  fcarcely 
"  neglect  fuch  an  opportunity  of  attempting  the 
•'  re-eftabliihment  of  their  former  power.  The 
"  mirror  of  that  phantom,  who  bore  the  name 
"  of  Rights-of-man,  was  prepared  with  the 
"  fame  magical  arts  as  the  glaffes  through  which, 
"  unknown  to  yourfelves,  Mr.  Philosophy 
m  caufed  you  to  view  the  light  which  is  now 
"  before  you.  The  men  who  had  been  deluded 
"  with  the  appearance  of  their  imaginary  chains, 
"  were  on  the  point  of  rebelling  againft  their 
"  governors,  and  of  involving  themfelves  with 
"them  in  one  general  deftrucYion;  when,  for- 
*'  tunately,  a  perfon,  whofe  name  was  Com- 
"  mon-sense,  threw  a  ftone,  which  broke 
"  the   minor;    aud   immediately    the    fpell    was 


(    80    ) 

"  diflblved,  and  public  tranquillity  was  reftor- 
«  ed." 

"But  hold,"  faid  Good-intent,  "  though 
"  you  have  fo  clearly  fhown  me  how  falfely  thefe 
"things  were  reprefented  to  me  by  Mr.  Phi- 
M  losophy,  yet,  on  looking  more  attentively,  I 
"  difcern  fome  perfons  yonder  who  are  loaded 
"  with  chains  of  no  imaginary  weight.  Who  are 
"  they  ?   and  wherefore  are  they  thus  oppreffed  ?" 

M  Thofe,"  faid  the  Interpreter,  "  are  a 
"  few,  who  did  not,  fo  fpeedily  as  the  reft,  for- 
"  get  what  Rights-of-man  had  taught  them. 
"  He  had  allured  them,  that  of  every  fpecies  of 
"  property,  which  they  beheld  in  the  poffeffion 
"  of  others,  they  were  entitled  to  their  refpeftive 
"  iliares.  That  it  was  allowable  for  them  to 
'*  help  themfelves  to  thofe  fhares,  was  an  in- 
"  ference  obvioufty  dedticible  from  fuch  a  maxim; 
"  bur,  unluckily  for  them,  in  the  ancient  archives 
"  of  the  ftate,  a  law  was  preferved,  which  faid, 
"  Thou  fhalt  not  fteal ;"  and  to  the  penalties 
"  impofed  by  that  law  are  they  now  obliged  to 
"  fubroit." 

"  Their  bondage  then  is  jufl,"  faid  Good- 
intent  :  "  yer,  if  rulers  are  entrufted  with  a 
"  power  to  inflict  captivity  and  death,  how  can 
"  any  man  who  is  fubjeft  to  them  confider  him- 
?!  felf  as  in  a  ftate  of  fecurity  V 


(     Si     ) 

"  Thofe  rulers  wh.om  thou  feed  before  thee,**  , 
faid'  the  Interpreter,  "  have  no  power  to 
"  flay  or  to  imprifon  any,  but  fuch  as  are  con- 
44  demned  by  juft  laws  and  impartial  judges;  but, 
"  were  it  othei  wife,  the  queftion  was  anfwered 
"  long  ago  by  one  who  lived  under  a  worfe, 
"  government  than  thou  haft  ever  feen  :  *  Wilt 
**  thou  not  be  afraid  of  the  power  ?  Do  that 
"  which  is  good,  and  thou  /halt  have  praife  of 
"  the  fame;  for  he  is  the  minifter  of  God  to 
*'  thee  for  good :  but  if  thou  doft  that  which  is 
u  evil,  be  afraid ;  for  he  beareth  not  the  fword  in 
"  vain.  For  rulers  are  not  a  terror  to  good 
*'  works,  but  to  the  evil.' — Wherefore,  if  fecu- 
"  rity  be  thy  defire,  let  it  be  thy  ftudy  continually 
"  to  follow  after  goodnefs,  meeknefs,  temperance: 
w  againft  fuch,  in  no  country,  unlefs  it  be  where 
"  Philosophy  h&h  eftablifhed  his  dominion,  is 
"  there  any  law." 

Good- intent  now  declared  himfeif  entirely 
relieved  from  all  the  uneafinefs  which  his  former 
iaiperfecl.  view  of  things  had  left  upon  his  mind; 
and  having  moll  gratefully  thanked  Mr.  Inter- 
preter  for  having  thus  opened  his  eyes  to  the 
truth,  and  given  him  fo  many  excellent  counfels, 
he  profefled  his  readinefs  to  fet  forward  again  on 
his  journey. 

But  the  Interpreter  invited  him  to  flay 


■ 


(     fc     ) 

with  him  all  "the  remainder  of  that  thv  ;  "  For,"" 
faid  he,  "  you  would  at  prefent  rind  yourfeif 
t*  much  molefted  by  thofe  who  were  lately  your 
"  companions,  and  who,  about  this  time,  are 
"  fetting  forth  on  the  expedition  to  which  Mr. 
'/Philosophy  hath  impelled  them;  but  they 
"  will  foon  turn  into  a  different  road,  and  to- 
f*  morrow  morning  you  may  refume  your  jour- 
"  ney  in  peace.  I  cannot,  indeed,  promife  you- 
"  that  you  will  travel  very  far  before  you  fall  in 
"  with  fome  of  thofe  who  are  enemies  to  your 
"  King,  of  whom  there  are  many  bands,  fpread^ 
"  ing  themfelves  far  and  wide  over  the  whole 
"country  through  which  you  are  to  pafs ;  but 
"  though  it  will  be  your  duty  firmly  to  refift 
f*  fuch,  whenever  they  attempt  either  forcibly  or 
"  fraudulently  to  turn  you  from  your  way,  it  is 
?*  yet  unneceffary  that  you  ihould  voluntarily  en- 
"  counter  the  flrft  fury  of  the  mad  troop  which 
"  is  now  about  to  iflue  forth,  and  of  which,  if  it 
"  will  gratify  you,  I  can  afford  you  a  fpeedy 
"  view." 

Good-intent  being  deGious  to  fee  them, 
the  Interpreter  led  him  to  an  upper  cham- 
ber, from  which  they  looked  directly  towards  the 
houfe  of  Mr.  Philosophy,  and  could  alfo  de- 
fcry  a  confiderable  portion  of  the  high  road.  And 
prefently   they    faw    Mr.  .Philosophy's   gates 


(     83     ) 

thrown  open,  and  a  numerous  company  of  men' 
ruih  forth.  There  appeared  among  them  perfons 
of  all  conditions ;  and  Good-intent  foon  dif- 
tinguiflied,  in  the  midil  of  the  band,  thofe  whom 
he  had  left  behind  him  die  day  before  in  the  black 
temple :  he  alfo  obfer.ved  many  others,  whom  he 
had  feen  among  the  guefts  of  Mr.  Philosophy 
at  fupper;  and,  particularly,  he  remarked  the  men 
with  the  fierce  countenances,  who  had  fet  apart 
from  the  reft,  and  who  wor-e  daggers  in  their 
girdles.  Thefe  were  now  mingled  with  the  others 
in  one  troop:  there  were,  moreover,  many  women 
in  the  company;  but  all  bore  in  their  hands  fome 
infhument  of  death,  which  they  waved  above 
their  heads  wkh  hideous  yellings  ;  frequently  in- 
termixing with  their  cries  the  moft  horrid  blaf- 
phemies  again  ft  Him  who  reigns  on  high,  and 
threats  againft  all  men  on  the  earth,  fuch  only 
excepted  as  (hould,  like  themfeives,  acknowledge 
no  other  lords  than  Atheism  and  Anarchy. 
Good-intent  was  aftonifhed  to  fee  that  thofe 
who  had  been  fo  recently  his  own  companions, 
were  animated  by  the  fame  frantic  fpirit  as  the 
reft;  and  he  could  not  forbear  expreiTmg  to  the 
Interpreter  his  furprize,  that,  in  fo  fiiort  a 
time,  they  fhoulcl  have  made  fo  great  a  progrefs 
in  ferocity;  for  though  he  had  beheld,  with  ab- 
horrence, their  apoftafy  from  their  King,'  he  had 


I  84  ) 

yet  thought  fame  of  them  of  too  mild  a  nature 
to  be  perfuaded'to  join  in  die  exceffes  of  this  def- 
perate  crew. 

"  When  men  have  once  abjured  the  pro- 
*'  te&ion  of  their  Creator,"  faid  the  Interpre- 
ter, "  they  fall  precipitately  from  one  wicked- 
*'  nefs  to  another,  while  there  is  none  to  up- 
44  hold  them.  Thefe  men,  you  may  remember, 
*?  were  impatient  to  receive  from  Anarchy  the 
"  fwords,  the  very  touch  of  which  Mr.  Phi- 
,*i  losophy  affured  them  would  produce  fuch 
"wonderful  effects;  and,  in  fa6t,  with  fuch 
'*  powerful  drugs  were  thofe  fwords  charmed, 
"  that,  inftantly  on  their  grafping  them,  they  were 
"  all  infpired  with  the  moft  oir.rageous  fury; 
*!  infomuch  that  Mr.  Philosophy  himfelf  could 
I "  fcarcely  reftrain  them  from  falling  upon  each 
*'  other  in  his  prefence.  He  foon,  however,  re- 
"  covered  his  influence  over  them,  and  fucceeded 
"  in  turning  their  rage  againit  his  enemies,  whom 
H  they  are  now  fallying  forth  to  attack." 

"  And  whither  will  they  go?"  demanded -GOOD- 
INTENT. 

"  They  will  continually  be  led  on  by  delufive 
"  fhadows,"  anfwered  the  Interpreter  ;  "  and 
"  imagining  that  they  fight  againit  Despotism 
*'  and  Superstition,  they  will  wage  war  againft 
*f  all  who  maintain  the  caufe  of  Lawful-go- 


(    «5    ) 

<<  VERNMENTandCHUKCH-ESTABLISHMENT, 

"  and  endeavour  to  overthrow  their  fway  in  all 
**  countries  where  they  are  owned,  erecting  in 
"  their  ftead  that  of  Atheism  and  Anarchy; 
"  nay,  fuch  is  their  arrogance,  that  they  think 
<l  even  to  dethrone  the  king  of  the  Celefiial  City, 
11  to  whom  heaven  and  earth  are  fubject, — But 
**  wait  till  thou  fhalt  enter  into  the  fanctuary  of 
"  God  ;  then  wilt  thou  underftand  the  end  of  thefe 
*s  men." 

Then  I  beheld  that  the  Interpreter  bade 
Good-intent  look  along  the  road,  on  die  which 
he  was  to  travel;  and  at  a  diitance  before  them 
he  faw  a  high  hill. 

"  That,"  faid  the  Interpreter,  "  is  the 
"  hill  Difficulty,  which  thou  muft  afcend;  but 
"  caft  thine  eyes  to  the  left,  on  thofe  dark  moun- 
<(  tains,  to  which  the  path  leads  which  is  called 
"  Dejlruclion,  and  obferve  that  fteep  and  craggy 
"  one,  which,  towers  above  all  the  reft ;  that 
"  is  the  mountain  of  Revolution.  The  afcent  of 
M  it  is  the  firft  enterprife  which  thofe  madmen 
V  muft  achieve ;  and  hence  truly  it  may  plainly 
"  appear  that  the  children  of  this  world  are  ever 
"  more  regardlefs  of  toil  than  the  children  of 
"  light;  for  few  labours  await  thee  in  thy  pilgrim- 
11  age  worthy  to  be  compared  wiCa  this*  which 
"  they  are  about  to  undertake.  All  the  paftes 
I 


(    86    ) 

"  about  the  bottom  of  the  mountain  are  guarded 
4i  by  the  troops  of  Lawful-government, 
"  who  will  fully  forth,  and  grievoufly  annoy  them: 
<e  if  they  prevail  againft  thofe,  they  will  after- 
*  "  wards  climb  up  flippery  paths,  by  the  edge  of 
M  terrible  precipices,  where  huge  fragments  of 
"  reck  are  continually  giving  way,  and  over- 
*;  whelming  travellers  with  fudden  ruin;  and  even 
<c  on  the  verv  fummit  of  the  mountain  there  are 
"  many  dangerous  bogs;  nay,  and  that  where 
"  the  grafs  appears  the  greeneft,  where,  if  a  man 
li  chance  to  tread,  he  fuddenlv  finks  to  rife  no 
"  more.  Whereas  thy  path,  though  it  be  difficult, 
"  is  fafe,  and  thou  haft  the  aiTurance  that  the  end 
*•'  thereof  will  be  everlafting  life.  Be  not  thou* 
"therefore,  weary  in  well-doing;  while  thofe 
u  who  do  ill  neither  faint  through  fatigue,  nor 
"  fufifer  themfelves  to  be  turned  back  by  the  fear 
"  of  any  danger." 

Good-intent  promifed  the  Interpreter 
he  would  never  be  unmindful  of  his  counfels  ; 
and  then,  deicending  from  the  houfe-top,  the  old 
gentleman  led  his  gueft'into  the  parlour,  where 
by  that  time  dinner  was  ready.  After  they  had 
rifen  from  table,  he  fliewed  him  molt  of  thofe 
fights  which  he  had  heretofore  fhown  to  Chris- 
tian, and  to  Christiana  his  wife,  that  through 
them  the  pilgrim's  refolution  might  be  the  farther 


(    87     ) 

ftrengthened ;  and  leading  him  into  his  garden,  he 
there  caufed  him  to  drink  of  the  waters  of  a  well, 
which  was  called  the  well  of  Truth ;  and  after 
that  draught,  the  pain  of  the  hurts  which  he  had 
received  in  .the  palace  of  Mr.  Philosophy^ 
which  was  already  greatly  abated,  was  entirely 
removed,  fo  that  he  felt  them  no  longer. 

They  fpent  the  reft  of  the  evening  in  profita- 
ble converfation ;  with  which  Good-intent 
was  fo  greatly  delighted,  that,  had  not  the  dif- 
eourfe  of  the  Interpreter  redoubled  his  im- 
patience to  proceed  on  his  journey,  he  could  have 
been  well  contented  to  have  pafUbd  the  remainder 
of  his  life  in  his  company.  In  the  morning  he 
arofe  early;  and  going  to  take  leave  of  his  kind 
hoft,  he  felt  himfelf  unable  fumciently  to  expreft 
the  gratitude  he  owed  him;  but  the  Interpre- 
ter told  him  that  the  mod  certain  evidence  he 
could  give  him  of  it  would  be  by  the  conflant 
observance  of  his  counfels ;  and  then,  bidding  him 
God  fpeed,  he  fufFered  him  to  depart. 

Now  I  faw  in  my  dream  that  the  young  man 
went  forwards  with  a  good  pace;  and  for  a  little 
way  he  could  plainly  trace  the  footfteps  of  Mr. 
Philosophy's  furious  followers,  who  had  pad 
by  the  day  before ;  who,  as  they  went,  had  torn 
down  the  fences  on  either  fide  of  the  road,  and 
done  what  mifchief  they  could  in  the  lands  ad- 


(•    88     ) 


joining ;  but  he  perceived  that  they  had  turned  cut 
of  that  road  before  they  came  to  the  Crofs,  and 
entered  a  lane  on  the  left  hand,  which  was  their 
neareft  way  to  the  mountain  of  Revolution. 

He  was  glad  to  lofe  for  a  time  all  traces  of 
them;  and  continuing  to  go  on,  he  foon  came 
to  the  place  where  Christian's  burden  had 
fallen  off  his  back.  There  he  flopped ;  and  re- 
newing at  the  foot  of  the  Crofs  all  his  good  refo- 
lutions,  he  humbly  implored  for  himfelf  a  partici- 
pation in  thofe  benefits,  which,  through  it,  had 
been  procured  for  all,  who  with  true  penitent 
hearts,  and  a  lively  faith,  were  followers  of  Him, 
by  whom  only  cometh  falvation.  After  he  had 
thus  continued  a  while  in  prayer,  he  rofe,  feeling 
himfelf  inwardly  much  ftreagthened,  and  pro- 
ceeded on  his  journey. 

He  had  not  gone  far,  when  he  perceived  be- 
fore him  a  youth,  who  appeared  nearly  of  his 
own  age,  and  who  was  travelling  the  fame  way 
with  himfelf,  but  very  leifurely ;  for  he  was  bufied 
in  making  a  garland  of  rofe-buds-,  which  he  hafted 
to  gadier  before  they  withered,  to  adorn  his  haip 
withal ;  and,  thus  employed,  he  paid  little  atten- 
tion to  his  goings,  but  ftepped,  fometimes  to  the 
right,  and  foTnetimes  to  the  left,  without  regarding 
where  he  fet  his  foot.  When  he  faw  Good- 
intent,  however,  he  was  much  rejoiced,  ami 


(     89    ) 

threw  away  his  flowers,  hoping  to  find  greater 
amufement  in  the  company  of  a  young  pilgrim 
of  fo  pleafant  a  countenance.  Good-intent 
alfo  greeted  him  fairly,  and  inquired  whether 
he  were  bound,  like  himfelf,  to  the  Celeftial 
City. 

"  Certainly,"  anfwered  the  youth ;  u  for 
«  fince  I  find  that  I  muft  needs,  ferae  time  or 
i;  other,  quit  the  pleafant  land  of  my  nativity, 
"  I  would  rather  go  to  that  city  than  elfewhere. 
*•  Yet  I  have  hitherto  found  the  road  lb  dull,  that 
"  I  have  been  many  times  in  the  mind  to  turn 
«  back." 

"  I  hope  not,"  faid  Good-intent:  "  I  hope 
M  you  are  not  fo  carelefs  of  your  own  eternal 
"  fafety,  as  to  entertain  any  fuch  perilous 
"  thoughts." 

"  O!  not  now,"  faid  the  young  man;  "  not 
"  while  I  have  you  for  a  companion ;  for,  truly, 
U  I  like  your  looks;  and  I  am  perfuaded  that  we 
"  (hall  foon  become  great  friends,  and  walk  on 
"  very  pleafantly  together." 

Good- in  tent  was  not  altogether  fo  well 
pleafed  with  his  new  affociare  as  his  new  aflb- 
date  was  with  him  ;  yet,  feeing  that  they  were 
travelling  the  lame  way,  and  that  the  young  man 
exprefled  fo  friendly  a  difpofkion  towards  him, 
he  returned  him  a  fuitable  anfwer,  and  was  cor.- 
i  2 


(    90    > 

tented  for  the  prefent  to  walk  on  in  his  company. 
Then  they  alked  each  other  of  their  names  and 
extraction ;  and  the  young  man  faid  that  his 
name  was  Light-mind,  and  that  he  came 
from  the  town  of  Thoughtlejfnefs,  in  the  valley 
of  Idlenefs. 

Good-intent — "And  what  adventures  have 
H  you  met  with  fince  you.  fet  out  from  your  own 
"country?" 

Light-mind — "Adventures!    Truly.none; 
"  unlefs  you  call  it  an  adventure  to  walk  (trait 
"  forwards  by  myfelf,  and  hear  the  croakings  of' 
"  the  ravens  in  the  hedges. " 

Good-intent — "  How  !  Did  Mr.  Philo- 
"  sophy  let  you  pafs  without  making  an  attempt 
"  to  inveigle  you  into  his  palace?" 

Light-mind — "  O  !  you  mean  the  large  new 
"  houfe  that  fiands  on  the  left  fide  of  the  way. 
"  Why,  indeed*,  as  I  pafied  over  a  bridge  near 
"  the  gate,  a  man  came  forth  to  me,  and  coun- 
"  felled  me  to  drink  of  the  water  of  the  dream; 
"  but  I  was  not  thirfty,  neither  was  the  water 
*  inviting  to  'mine  eye — fo  I  refufed ;  however, 
"  he  ftill  went  on  perfuading  me,  if  I  would  not 
"  drink,  yet  to  go  to  the  houfe ;  and  as  he  told  me 
f*  I  ihould  be  well  entertained  there,  I  might  pof~ 
"  fibly  have  contented  to  follow  him,  had  I  not 
"  feen  a  company  of  men  walking  in  the  pleafu 


(    9'    ) 

"  grounds,  who,  he  faid,  were  fome  of  his  mafterrs 
"  chief  friends;  and  a  more  ihabby,  beggarly  fet 
*'  I  never  beheld.  So  afluring  myfelf  there  could 
"  be  no  company  there  tit  for  a  gentleman  to  pflb- 
"  ciate  with,  I  would  not  demean  myfelf  by  going 
"  among  them,  but  walked  on  in  my  own  road. 
"  Then  he  who  had  been  talking  with  me,  reviled 
H  me,  and  went  his  way." 

Good-intent — "  I  would  I  had  been  as 
*'  eafily  offended  as  you  were  by  the  ill-favoured 
4t  appearance  of  thofe  men;  for  by  what  motive 
"  foever  I  had  been  withheld  from  entering  the 
4t  palace  of  their  mailer,  it  would  in  the  end  have 
"-  fpared  me  much  uneafmefs.  But  I  conclude 
u  you  went  afterwards  to  the  houfe  of  the  Inter- 
"  preter  ;  for,  betides  the  profit  to  be  reaped 
*•*  there,  reft  and  refrefhment  muft  have  been  very 
"  necefiary  to  vou  on  your  journey." 

Light-mind — "  Not  I  indeed  1  What  amufe*. 
'■'  ment  could  one  of  my  years  find  in  the  company 
"■  of  that  old-  grey-beard  ?  Half  a  century  hence, 
"  perhaps,  fuch  a  companion  may  be  very  fuitable 
"tome;  bur,  for  the  prefent,  rather  than  give 
"  myfelf  the  trouble  of  paying  for  my  lodging  by 
<<<  patiently  liftening  to  his  long  ftories,  1  chofe  to 
"  put  up  with  a  green  bank  for  my  pillow;  and 
**  as  for  a  fupper,  I  was  at  no  lofs  on  that  fcore^ 
w  iince  I  have,,  as  you  fee,  this  wallet,,  which  was 


i  92  I 

{*  plentifully  filled  with  the  moft  painty  food  by 
u  my  mother  Indulgence,  before  I  fet  out  upon 
"  my  pilgrimage." 

Now  I  faw  in  my  dream  that  Good- intent 
was  much  offended  to  hear  his  good  friend  the  In- 
terpreter fpoken  of  thus  lightly:  fo  he-  took 
his  part  with  great  warmth,  and  endeavoured  to 
convince  his  companion  how  much  he  had  been 
in  the  wrong  in  neglecting  to  vifit  him,  as  he  had 
paft  his  houfe  :  "  And  ijt  is  much  to  be  feared," 
laid  he,  \\  that,  if  you  now  avoid  fuch  company 
"  becaufe  you  are  young,  when  you  (hall  have 
"  lived  through  the  half  century  which  you  fo 
g  confidently  promife  yourfelf,  you  may  no  longer 
"  hitve  it  in  your  power  to  obtain  admiffion  to  it." 
He  then  went  on  to  fpeak  of  the  great  advantages 
which  he  himfelf  had  derived  from  his  vifit  to  the 
Interpreter  ;  and  Licht-mind  heard  him 
with  fuch  ready  acquiefcencc,  that  Good- intent 
conceived  great  hopes  that  he  fhould  foon  be  able 
to  prevail  with  him  to  adopt  very  different  fenti- 
ments.  So  they  went  on,  till  they  came  to  the  foot 
of  the  hill  Difficulty,  the  fight  of  which  did  rather 
invigorate  the  fpirits  of  Good-intent,  who  was 
eager  to  prefs  forward  and  gain  the  fummit;  but 
its  fteepnefs  did  forely  difmay  his  companion,  who 
profeffed  himfelf  unable  to  attempt  the  afcent. 
Good-intent  earneflly  conjured  him  not  to 


(    93    ) 

fuffer  himfelf  to  be  fo  eafilv  difcouraged,  nor  t« 
give  up  all  the  advantages,  in  the  hope  of  which 
he  had  proceeded  fo  far  on  his  pilgrimage,  rather 
than  encounter  a  little  difficulty  ;  and  lie  even  of- 
fered to  affift  him  in  climbing,  though  his  own  toil 
would  be  thereby  fo  greatly  increafed. 

On  this,  Light- mind  was  afhamed  to  refufe 
any  longer:  "  But  at  leafr,"  faid  he,  "  let  me  fit 
"  awhile  by  this  fountain,  to  take  a  little  red, 
"  before  I  attempt  an  enterprife  fo  troublefome; 
"  foryou  ought  to  confider,  that  you  have  been 
"  fpending  thefe  laft .  two  nights  at  the  houfe  of 
"  the  Interpreter,  where,  you  tell  me,  you 
"  found  yourfelffo  mightily  at  your  eafe;  wherea^j 
"  I  had  no  better  a  bed  than  the  bare  ground,  ffnce 
"  1  firft  fet  out  from  the  houfe  of  my  kind  mother. 
"  Since,  therefore,  1  have  not  partaken  of  the 
"  fame  refreshments  as  you,  it  is  natural  that  I 
"  fhould  feel  myfelf  more  overcome  by  the  fa- 
'<  tigues  of  the  way :  wherefore  let  me  reft  myfelf 
"  a  little,,  and  afterwards  I  will  go  forward  with 
"  you." 

Good- intent  made  no  objection  to  this  pro- 
pofal,  though  on  his  own  account  he  felt  little 
inclination  for  reft.  So  they  fat  down  by  the 
fide  of  the  fpring,  and  Light- mind  opened  his 
wallet,   and  took  out  fome  cakes ;  but  Gaoft- 


(    94    ) 

intent  had  a  bunch  of  dried  fruit,  which  had 
been  given  to  him  by  the  Interpreter  ;  and  I 
faw  that  each  did  offer  to  the  other  part  of  his  fare ; 
but  each  liked  his  own  the  beft:  fo  they  did  eat 
and  refrem  themfelves,  and  they  drank  of  the  water 
of  the  fpring. 

While  they  were  thus  fitting,  on  a  fudden 
they  heard  on  their  right  hand  a  noife  of  melo- 
dious mufic,  which  was  as  that  of  many  inftru- 
ments,  fkilfully  played  on,  and  well  accorded 
together,  accompanying  the  voice  of  a  finger, 
which  in  fweetnefs  far  furpafied  them  all.  By- 
degrees  the  found  drew  nearer;  and  the  pilgrims 
riling  and  advancing  a  few  paces  towards  it, 
ther  defcried  coming  down  the  path  that  was  cal- 
led Danger,  a  company  of  beautiful  nymphs,  of 
whom  fome  were  the  mufkians  who  formed  this 
rare  concert,  and  the  reft,  dancing  to  the  meafure, 
encircled  one  who  appeared  to  be  their  miftrefs, 
and  who  walked  in  the  midfl:  with  a  more  than 
ftately  deportment.  Light- mind  was  tran- 
fporecl  with  joy  at  the  fight  of  this  goodly 
cc-mpany ;  but  Good-intent  had  teamed  to 
trull;  lefs  to  appearance;  and  though  the  nymphs 
feemed  as  fair  in  his  eyes  as  they  did  in  thofe  of 
his  companion,  yet  the  firft  thought  which  arofe 
in  his  mind  as  he  beheld  them,  was  a  refoluiioo! 


(     95     ) 
that  he  would  not,  for  their  fakes,  be  perfuaded 
to  turn  afide  from  the  way  which  he  knew  to  be 
the  right  one. 

They  foon  came  up  to  the  fpot  where  the  piU 
grims  flood ;  and  the  nymphs  falling  back,  their 
miftrefs  advanced,  and  fairly  accofted  the  two 
young  men.  She  was  a  gentlewoman  of  a  mar- 
vellous good  mien,  and  though  fne  was  not  by 
nature  of  a  fair  complexion,  that  defect,  was 
abundantly  mPP!ied  by  art :  /lie  had  a  haughty 
air,  yet  withal  a  very  enticing  fmile:  {he  was, 
moreover,  very  fantaftically  dad;  but  what  feemed 
the  ftrangeft  to  the  pilgrims  was,  that,  while  they 
looked  at  her,  they  beheld  her  garments  afTuming 
every  moment  a  new  fhape  or  hue:  even  the 
colour  of  her  hair  changed  before  their  eyes ;  and 
inftead  of  a  lap-dog,  fce  carried  a  cameleon  in 
her  ar— 


irms. 


"  Gentlemen,"  faid  {lie  to  the  pilgrims.  «  I 
!'  will  not  affront  perfons  of  your  figure  fo  much 
"as    to    fUpPofe    you    have  not    heard    of  me- 

*  though,  in  regard  that  you  are  young,  and  have 
■  but  newly  entered  into  the  world,  yoo  have  not 

vet  prefented  yourfelves  at  my  coun,  to  pay  me 

^    n- homage  which  I  claim  from  all.     I  am  called 

t^  Lady  Fashion:  thefe  nymphs,  whom  vou 

^m  my  train,  are  the  Pleasures:  ail  people 

•  <*  conation  acknowledge  me  as  their  fbvereign 


(  f  ) 

X<    |g    ]y     .  JV]         ,    '  '  '  n0(      {jut 

<(th  u  unity  I  now 

"  offer  yo  I  tmends  for  your  pad 

"neglect,   and  I    .   attaining  the  high  ho- 

"  nours  to  which  ic  is  my  cuibm  to  exalt  my 
"  favourites," 

"  We  are  beholden  to  you,  madam,"  anfwer- 
ed  Good-intent,  "  for  the  courtefy  you  de- 
"  (ign  us  ;  but,  before  we  accept  it,  we  mufl 
"know  what  homage  it  is  that  you  expect  from 
"  us;  for  we  cannot  ferve  two  matters;  neither 
u  will  we  leave  him  who  has  bound  us  unto  him 
"  by  fo  many  benefits,  and  from  whom  we  look 
"  for  our  everla fling  reward,  to  put  ourfelves 
"  under  fuch  fubjeclion  to  any  odier,  as  may 
61  alienate  us  from  that  undivided  obedience  which 
"  we  owe  unto  him." 

"  Are  you  mad,"  whifpered  Light-mind  to 
Good-intent,  "  to  aufwer  fo  fine  a  lady  fo 
4{  uncivilly?" 

Then  faid  the  Lady  Fashion,  "  You  need 
"  entertain  no  apprehenfions  that  I  (hall  engage 
"  you  in  any  actions  which  can  draw  upon  you 
*'  the  anger  of  your  prince;  for  though  I  do  not 
"  rigidly  mfift  that  my  votaries  (hall  acknowle 
"  his  authority,  yet,  if  it  pleafes  themfelves f 
|«  fo,  I  by  no  me;*ns  object  to  it,  but  permit 
'  them  openly  to  profeis  thctnfeives  his  iubjc 


(    97     ) 

"  and  to  obey  fuch  of  his  injun&ions  as  are  rea- 
"  fonable,  and  not  improper  to  be  obferved  by 
u  perfons  of  a  certain  rank.  All,  indeed,  that  I 
"  require  of  thofe  whom  I  favour  is,  that  they 
"  wear  fuch  garments  as  I  choofe  for  them,  and 
"  -conform  to  my  directions  in  a  few  more  trifles, 
"  equally  indifferent;  and,  in  return,  I  admit  them 
"  to  my  bower,  and  (hew  them  an  eafy  and  plea- 
"  fant  path  through  the  groves  of  Dlffipation* 
"  whereby  they  may  proceed  on  their  journey 
"  without  giving  themfelves  the  trouble  of  climb- 
*~  ing  up  this  fteep  and  craggy  hill ;  a  labour  only 
"  fit  to  be  undertaken  by  thofe  vulgar  pilgrims 
"  whofe  prefence  would  difgrace  my  court." 

Then  I  faw  in  my  dream,  that  Good-intent 
beheld  her  with  indignation,  and  faid,  "  It  is 
"  indeed  true,  O  vain  and  deceitful  woman  ! 
"  that  the  firfl;  compliances  which  thcu  doft  de- 
"  maud  appear  light  and  harmlefs;  and  as  we 
" detire  to  live  peaceably  with  all  men,  we  would 
"  readily  avail  ouifeives  of  the  liberty  which  is 
"  given  to  us  to  confent  to  thy  will  in  all  matters 
"  really  indifferent;  but  in  requiring  us  to  turn 
"  atide  from  the  way  of  our  Lord,  thou  dull:  fuf- 
"  ficieiuly  difcover  to  us  thy  evil  purpofes;  for 
"  thofe  who  truly  honour  him,  efteem  none  of 
"  his  injunctions  unreafonable;  but,  remembering 
<c  that  with  him   is   no   refpeft  of  perfons,   will 

K 


(    98    ) 

w  never  imagine  that  any  worldly  rank  can  exempt 
"  its  pofleflbr  from  the  obligation  to  which  all 
"  men  are  equally  fubjedt,  to  keep  the  whole 
"  law.  Wherefore,  if  thou  and  thy  train  refufe 
Cl  to  afcend  this  mountain  with  us,  thy  invitations 
"  to  us  are  vain,  for  we  can  in  no  wife  confent  to 
"  walk  with  thee." 

"  And  why  fhould  you  efteem  it  fo  neceffary," 
replied  the  Lady  Fashion,  "  to  afcend  that 
"  dreary  mountain  ?  Or,  if  you  are  right  at  the 
"  lad,  what  can  it  fignify  which  path  you  take 
"  at  the  beginning  of  your  journey  ?  The  road 
"  which  I  mall  (hew  you,  winds  round  the  foot 
"  of  the  hill  Difficulty,  and,  avoiding  that  dan- 
u  gerous  fwamp,  the  valley  of  Humiliation,  is 
"  both  the  fafeft  and  the  pleafanteft,  by  which 
"  you  can  travel  to  the  town  of  Vanity,  through 
"which,  as  it  is  known  to  every  body,  you  muft 
"  necefiarily  pafs  in  your  way  to  the  Cclejlial 
"  Country;  and  having  once  reached  that  town, 
"  and  partaken  awhile  of  its  delights,  you  will 
"  afterwards  be  free  to  purfue  your  journey  on- 
"  wards,  by  whatfoever  path  you  choofe." 

Then  Good-intent  looked  at  the  mountain, 
and  it  appeared  to  him  more  dreary  than  at  firft ; 
for  its  fummit  was  clad  with  ftormy  clouds,  while 
below  the  air  was  clear,  and  no  wind  was  felt, 
fave  a  light  breeze,  which  wafted  the  moll  de~ 


i    99    ) 

Je&able  perfumes  from  the  groves  of  Dijjipation, 
But  the  pilgrim  bethought  himfelf  of  his  book  ; 
and,  when  he  opened  it,  he  found  written  therein, 
"  The  fafhion  of  this  world  paffeth  away ;" — 
"  but  he  that  doeth  the  will   of  God,   abideth 
"  for  ever."      Then  was  his  heart  fortified  in 
his  good  resolutions,  and  he  refufed  to  liften  any 
longer  to  the  perfuafions  of  feducers;  but  looking 
round  for  Light-mind,  that  he  might  lead  him 
alfo  forward  in  the  way   wherein  he  was  pur- 
pofed  to   walk  himfelf,   he  found  him  not;   for 
two  damfels  in  the  train  of  Fashion,  Pomp  and 
Luxury  by  name,  had   enamoured  the  fimple 
youth,  who  had  paid  little  attention  to  the  argu- 
ments of  his  companion,  and  were  leading  him 
in  triumph  towards  their  miftrefs's  bower. 

When  Good-intent  at  laft  defcried  him,  in 
his  eagernefs  to  overtake  him  and  call  him  back, 
he  ran  fome  paces  after  him.     Then  Fashion, 
hoping  that,  though  he  had  at  firft  refitted  her 
allurements,  he  might  ncverthelefs  be  vanquifhed 
as  eafily  as  Light-mind  had  been  by  the  charms 
of  her  nymphs,  commifTioned  them  to  ufe  all  their 
arts  to  enfnare  him ;   and  I  faw  in  my  dream  that, 
obedient  to  their    Queen's   cummand,    Amuse- 
ment danced  around  him,  and,  feizing  his  hand, 
fpordvely  courred  him  to  join  her  revels;    and 
Taste,  approaching  on  the  other  fide,  offered 


(     ioo     ) 

to  lead  him  to  thofe  delicious  groves,  which  her 
fkill  had  adorned,  where  (he  would  cull  for  him 
the  faired:  flowers,  and  where  delights,  unknown 
to  vulgar  fouls,  invited  his  enjoyment. 

Good-intent  was  nearly  overcome.  He 
was  now  within  fight  of  the  verdant  walks  of 
the  groves  of  Dijftpation,  which  were  thronged 
with  crowds  of  people  in  the  mod  fplendid  dreffes, 
and  in  which  he  beheld  Light-mind,  fur- 
rounded  by  a  new  company  of  damfels,  not  clad  in 
the  virgin  robes  which,  were  worn  by  thofe  who 
had  at  firft  appeared,  but  decked  with  the  gaudy 
and  fhamelefs  attire  of  harlots:  two  of  thefe, 
obferving  the  approach  of  Good-intent,  ad- 
vanced to  the  entrance  of  the  grove,  as  if  to 
receive  him ;  and  he  perceived  that  they  beckoned 
to  his  condu&reffes,  who,  anfwering  the  fjgnalr 
quickened  their  pace,  and  drew  him  more  forcibly 
alon^.  Now  (he,  whom  Amusement  thus 
haftened  to  meet,  was  known  by  her  haggard 
looks  and  fluihed  complexion,  her  intemperate 
laugh,  and  her  half- frantic  geftures,  to  be  Excess  ; 
while  Prodigality,  fcattering  gold  with  both 
her  hands,  and  catching  in  its  ftead  at  a  few 
baubles  of  imaginary  value,  was  the  nymph  to 
whom  Taste  was  hurrying  to  prefent  the 
pilgrim. 

But  the  fight  of  thefe  new  afTociates  recalled 


(     ioi     ) 

reflection  to  his  bofom.  Ke  perceived  that  Light- 
mind  had  advanced  too  far  to  be  reclaimed  by  his 
warning  voice;  and  he  became  confcious  that  he 
was  no  longer  drawn  forward  by  any  hope  of 
faving  his  companion,  but  by  the  charms  of  the 
Pleasures,  to  which  he  had  too  eafily  yielded. 
Then  he  remembered  that  it  was  written,  "  He 
"  that  refifteth  pleafures  crowneth  his  life ;"  and, 
inftantly  breaking  from  the  grafp  of  his  feducers, 
he  turned  his  back  on  the  alluring  groves,  and 
ran  with  all  his  fpeed  towards  the  place  where 
the  dangerous  company  firfl:  had  met  him ;  nor, 
though  Beauty  and  Elegance  placed  them- 
felves  in  the  way  to  attract  his  eye,  and  Har- 
mony chanted  her  fweeteft  notes  to  charm  his 
ear,  would  he  once  ftop  or  look  back  till  he  had 
reached  the  foot  of  the  hill  Difficulty,  which  he 
immediately  began  to  afcend;  while  Fashion, 
provoked  that  he  had  efcaped  her  fafcinations, 
confoled  herfcii'  by  making  him  her  laughing- 
flock,  and  declaring  that  ihe  had  herfelf  expelled 
him  from  her  boundaries,  as  a  perfon  unworthy 
to  aflbciate  with  her  chofen  band. 

Regardlefs  of  her  feoffs,  he  purfued  his  way, 
and  climbed  up  the  fteep  mountain  with  great 
alacrity,  till,  panting  with  fatigue,  he  was  obliged 
to  flacken  his  pace  that  he  might  recover  breath. 
And  he  now  found  that  the  difficulty  of  his  way 
H  2 


(       102      ) 

was  greater  than  he  had  at  firfb  imagined ;  for,  by 
reafon  of  a  long  continuance  of  dry  weather,  the 
grafs,  wherewith  the  path  he  had  chofen  was 
overgrown,  was  become  very  flippery;  fo  that,' 
as  he  endeavoured  to  climb,  he  frequently  flid 
back,  and  could  fcarcely  fave  himfelf  from  dan- 
gerous falls.  Then  he  began  to  lament  himfelf, 
and  even  to  doubt  whether  it  would  not  have  been 
more  fafe  for  him  to  have  remained  in  the  valley 
where  the  PIcafures  abode,  than  to  have  attempted 
to  climb  a  height  too  difficult  for  him  to  attain; 
but  endeavouring  to  difmifs  this  thought  from  his 
mind,  he  cried  for  help  to  Him  who  never 
rejects  the  prayers  of  humble  pilgrims;  and  was 
about  to  redouble  his  exertions,  when,  raifing  his 
eyes,  he  faw  before  him  a  man,  whofe  raiment 
was  of  fackcloth,  and  whofe  fpare  thin  body  was 
waited  with  long  continued  abftinence;  but  his 
item  and  louring  afpect  infpired  Good-intent 
with  difmay, 

"  Young  man,"  faid  he,  accoftfng  the  pilgrim, 
"  thy  attempt  to  aiccnd  this  mountain  is  laudable; 
4i  but  thy  nerves  are  relaxed  by  the  air  of  tho 
"  valley  below,  and  without  affiftance  thy  labours 
"-will  be  vain.  To  afford  fupport  to  fainting 
u  travellers  is  the  office  to  which  I  am  appointed 
f  by  the  Lord  of  this  way.  If,  therefore,  thou  haft 
"  the  courage,  Icon  on  this  ftaff,.  and  follow  m 


(     *°3     ) 

Now  the  flaff  which  lie  ofFered  to  Good- 
intent  was  thickly  befet  with  thorns ;  and 
the  path  into  which  he  led  him  was  one,  which 
indeed  went  ftraight  towards  the  fummit  of  the 
hill,  but  it  was  fo  rugged,  and  ftrewed  with 
fuch  fh.arp  pebbles,  that  he  could  fcarcely  en- 
dure to  walk,  in  it.  Yet,  fearing  to  reject  a 
guide  whom  his  King  had  appointed  to  conduct: 
him,  he  obeyed  him  with  little  hefitation,  only 
defiring  to  know  his  name ;  and  when  the 
ftranger  replied  that  it  was  Self-denial, 
Good-intent  remembered  that  he  was  one 
with  whom  the  faithful  fervants  of  his  Lord 
had  ever  delighted  to  walk.  So  he  took  the 
thorny  ftaff;  and  though  he  could  not  lean  on 
it  without  pain,  yet  he  found  himfelf  perceptibly 
ltiengthened  by  the  hidden  virtues  with  which 
it  was  endued;  and  he  walked  forward  in  the 
rugged  path,  where  he  was  no  longer  in  any 
danger  of  falling,  but  found  firm  footing  for  his 
fleps.  He  had  not  proceeded  far,  before  the  fleep 
and  difficult  afcent  was  become  as  eafy  to  him, 
as  ever  he  had  found  it  to  walk  on  level  ground; 
the  thorns,  which  at  ririt.  had  pierced  his  hand, 
were  blunted;  and  as  he  viewed  his  guide,  his 
harfti  features  appeared  to  foften,  and  to  invite 
familiarity  as  much  as  at  mil  they  had  excited 
lerror. 


(     104     ) 

Good-intent  could  not  forbear  exprefling 
his  furprife  at  the  alteration;  and  Self-denial, 
fmiling  with  an  air  of  benignity,  replied  unto 
him,  "  It  is  true,  that  thofe  who  are  ftrangers  to 
u  me,  do  in  general  fuppofe  me  their  enemy ;  and 
*  thofe  only  difcover  in  me  a  friend,  whofe  zeal 
"  for  their  King  induces  them  to  prefer  the  afcent 
"  of  this  mountain  to  the  flowery  paths  of  the 
"  Pleasures." 

*'  Alas,  Sir!"  faid  Good-intent,  "  I  fear 
"  that  I  have  little  claim  to  the  kindnefs  which 
"  has  been  "(hewn  unto  me,  feeing  that  I  did 
*'  myfelf  wander  from  the  ftraight  road,  in  the 
"  company  of  thofe  bewitching  damfels ;  and 
•'  though  I  quitted  them  at  laft,  I  know  not  what 
41  degree  of  guilt  I  may  have  contracted,  by  fuf- 
"  fering  them  to  lead  me  fo  far." 

"Fear  not,"  replied  the  guide;  "the  Plea- 
"  sures  are  harmlefs  companions,  till  fuch  time 
M  as  they  introduce  their  votaries  to  the  Vices, 
*'  who  compofed  that  fecond  female  band  which 
"  you  beheld  in  the  grove  of  JOijfipatlon.  Thofe 
"of  the  firft  company,  had  you  not  quitted  them 
**  when  you  did,  would  foon  have  forfaken  you; 
"  for  they  feldom  venture  beyond  the  out-fkirts 
"  of  that  dangerous  grove,  beeaufe  Vexation- 
"  of-spirit,  a  fiend  whofe  very  afpe£t  is  fatal 
"  to   them,   is  continually   {talking   through   its 


(     ios    ) 

P  paths.  Though,  therefore,  at  the  command  of 
"  Fashion,  they  frequently  conduct  unwary  pil- 
"  grims  thither,  they  enter  not  themfelves;  nor, 
"  indeed,  though  they  are  now  in  alliance  with 
"  the  Vices,  do  they  take  any  delight  in  their 
"  fociety;  for  they  were  originally  attendant  on 
"  the  Virtues;  from  whofe  fervice  though  they 
44  have  been  feduced,  they  frill  meet  them  with 
"joy,  and  often  affbciate  with  them:  nay,  fome*- 
lf  times,  difgufied  with  the  caprices  of  Fashion, 
44  who  vainly  boafts  her  empire  over  them,  they 
4:  quit  her  train,  and  walk  for  a  confiderable  way 
/*  with  pilgrims  who  are  travelling  towards  the 
"  Cclefilal  City.  But,  though,  for  a  feafon,  it 
li  is  not  forbidden  to  converfe  with  them,  yet,  in 
"  their  prefent  degenerate  ftate,  they  are  compa- 
"  nions  whom  it  is  dangerous  to  entertain  with- 
"  out  continual  fufpicion  and  miftruft ;  fince  he, 
*}.  who,  regardlefs  of  the  prize  of  his  high  calling, 
44  becomes  a  lover  of  pleafure  more  than  a  lover 
"  of  God,  foon  learns  to  content  himfelf  with 
44  earthly  joys,  and  no  longer  feeks  thofe  nobler 
44  Pleasures  which  are  above;  but,  following 
44  thefe  blind  and  inconftant  guides,  is  fooner  or 
44  later  feduced  into  forbidden  paths,  where  he 
44  finally  makes  (hipwreck  of  his  hopes,  and  be- 
44  comes  a  miferable  cart-away." 

44  But  I   pray    you,"    faid    Good-intent, 


(     io6    ) 

U  fincc  you  have  had  the  kindnefs  to  impart  Co 
u  much  unto  me,  tell  me  yet  farther  who  this 
"  Lady  Fashion  is,  and  what  can  be  her  motive 
**  for  defiring  to  entice  fo  many  innocent  pilgrims 
"  into  the  path  of  Danger  ?" 

"  To  refolve  this  queftion,"  anfwered  Self- 
denial,  "  I  muft  remind  you,  that,  as  (he  her- 
«'  felf  did  craftily  urge  unto  you,  the  road  to  the 
"  Celeftial  City  lies  through  the  town  of  Vanity. 
"  Now,  when  your  anceftor  Christian  paffed 
**  that  way,  he  found  the  whole  town  in  fubjec- 
<c  tion  to  its  prince  Beelzebub,  and  all  the  men 
"  who  dwelt  there  enemies  unto  thofe  who  ferved 
"  the  Heavenly  King;  but  after  that  Faithful 
•'  had  by  his  death  glorioufly  given  teftimony 
M  to  the  truth,  many  were  converted  unto  it ; 
"  infomuch  that  when  Christiana  and  her 
"  company  came  there,  they  met  with  very  hof- 
"  pitable  entertainment  at  the  houfe  of  Mr. 
*'  Mnason,  and  found  many  good  friends,  with 
"  whom  they  fpent  pleafantly  all  the  time  which 
"  it  was  meet  they  fliould  pafs  at  that  place. 
"  The  number  of  thefe  favourers  of  pilgrims  has 
•'  ever  fince  continued  to  increafe,  to  the  great 
"  injury  of  the  fair  which  is  held  there,  and  of 
"  thofe  who  traffic  in  the  kind  of  merchandize 
M  which  is  expofed  in  it  for  fale;  travellers, 
«#  who  are  on  their  way  to  a  better  country,  not 


{     k>?     ) 

**  caring  to  encumber  themfelves  with  fuch  vain 
"  and  perifliable  commodities.     Wherefore,  upon 
""  a   time,    Beelzebub   himfelf  called   together 
"  the  chief  men  of  his  party   in  the  town,  and 
4i  bade  them  devife  fome  means  of  remedy;   and 
41  fome   faid   on    this   wife,    and   fome   on   that. 
*l  But  when   none   of  them  could  propofe  any 
4t  efFedual  expedient,   this  Lady  Fashion  ap- 
';  peared,  and  prefented  herfelf  before  the  coun- 
"  cil.     Now  (he  was  a  perfon  well  known  in 
"  the  town,   being  the  daughter  of  Madam  Bub- 
ble    ((he    that    had    almoft    been    too    hard 
"  for  Standfast  the  pilgrim),  and  moreover 
"  nearly  related  to  all  the  chief  families  of  the 
"place:  Beelzebub,  therefore,  did  readily  grant 
"  her  an  audience;   and  fhe  reprefented  that  the 
"  moft  proper  feafon  to  attack  pilgrims,  and   to 
"  drive  to  feduce    them    from  their   Lord,    was 
4t  not  when   they  had  proceeded  fo  far  on  their 
"journey   as   to   have   reached    that   place,    but 
«  rather  when  they  were  firft  beginning  to  per- 
«  ceive  the  difficulty  of  the  way  they  had  chofen; 
"  and  me  obferved  that  the  path  called  Danger, 
"  which   turned  off  at  the  foot  of  this   moun- 
"  tain,  did  indeed  lead   to   the   town   of  Vanity, 
(i  but  to  a  quarter  of  it  remote  from  thofe  Greets, 
u  through   which  lay   the   road   to  the   Cclejlial 
•  City.      S\iq  therefore  uropofed  to  engage  the 


(     io8    ) 

u  Pleasures  in  her  train,  and  to  lie  in  wait 
*'  near  the  fpot  where  (lie  met  you,  for  young 
M  and  unwary  pilgrims;  and  her  fcheme  proving 
u  acceptable  to  her  prince,  he  immediately  em- 
"  powered  her  to  execute  it.  And  her  fuccefs 
u.  has  beeii  .  '  verable  to  her  promifes:  you  ap- 
"  proachcci  fufficieotly  near  to  the  grove  of  DiJJi- 
il  Ration,  to  fee  how  numerous  a  company  was 
"  affembled  there.  When  thofe  whom  me  has 
c*  feduced  firft:  enter  it,  every  object  appears  to 
"  them  as  delightful  as  it  feemed  to  you ;  but  the 
"  fcene  foon  alters,  as  the  Pleasures  vanifh. 
w  Of  thofe  who  are  enticed  thither,  fome,  lofmg 
"  fight  of  thofe  gay  nymphs,  are  met  by  Vexa- 
*?  tion- of- spirit,  from  whom  though  they  fly, 
f  they  find  it  impoflible  to  avoid  him;  till,  har- 
"  raffed  by  his  continual  purfuir,  a  few  of  them 
«*  bethink  themfelves  of  returning  to  the  right 
u  way,  and  having  regained  it,  are  even  more 
"  zealous  in  walking  therein,  than  thofe  who 
6i  never  have  forfaken  it.  But  the  greater  part 
"  of  the  votaries  of  Fashion  become  an  eafy 
'J  prey  to  that  fecond  company  of  damfels,  fent 
"  forth  by  Beelzebub  himfelf  to  compafs  their 
"  ruin.  Thofe  whom  you  faw  at  the  entrance  of 
"  the  grove,  were  the  leaft  deformed  of  their 
"band:  had  you  advanced  further,  you  would 
"  have  met  with  Revelling,  Drunkenness, 


(     109    ) 

**  Irreligion,  Immorality,  Contempt- 
'<  of-parents,  Pride,  Contention,  Sab- 
«  bath-breaking,   Adultery,  with  many 
"  more,  whofe  very  names  it  is  irkfome  to  report. 
"  Had  you   formed    any  fellowmip  with    thefe, 
"  you  would  immediately  have  fallen  under  fub- 
"  je&ion  to  the  power  of  their  infernal  matter, 
"  nor  would  any  poflibility  of  efcape  have  remain- 
«<  ed  for  you,  but  by  climbing  up  the  precipitous 
"rock  of  Repentance,  in  comparifon  with  which 
"  the  afcent  of  this  hill  of  Difficulty  is  eafy  and 
"  pleafant.     Till  in  the  fountains  of  water  which 
"  gum  forth  from  its  clefts,  you  had  wafhed  away 
"  every  (lain  which  you  had  contracted  from  the 
"Vices    with   whom    you    had   aflbciated,    the 
;{  Furies,  Guilt,  Remorse,  and  Despon- 
;  dence,    would  have  purfued   you   with   their 
"  fnaky  whips;  and  even  when  you  had  gained 
"  the  furnmit,  Ill-habit  would  have  afiaultcd 
$  you,   with  the  intent  to  hurl  you  backwards 
"  into  the  abyfs  below.    But  greater  terrors  await 
«?  thofe  who   either   want  courage  to   tread   the 
"  path  of  Repentance,  or  who,  delighting  in  the 
"  company  of  the  Vices,  blindly  follow  whither- 
"  foever  they  lead.     As  they  advance  farther  in 
K  *e  way  of  Danger,  Extravagance  hurries 
"tauc  mro  the  pn-falis  of  Ruin;   while  Gam- 
u  ing  Ipreads  her  nets  for  others,  in  which,  when 


L 


(      "0      ) 

«  they  find  themfelvesentangled,  they  madly  feize  the 
"  dagger  of  Suicide.    Others,  mifled  by  FalsE- 
"  honour,  are  Suddenly  cut  off  by  the  murder- 
"  ous hand  of  Duelling:  and  thofe  who  efcape 
"  thefe  deaths,  yet  have  to  encounter  Disease; 
«<  a  many -headed  dragon,  who  opens  to  devour 
"  them  his  hundred  mouths,  each  dropping  a  dif- 
"  ferent  but  mortal  poifon.     The  few  who  fur- 
"  vive  and  reach  the  town  of  Vanity,   are  ft  ill 
"  followed  by  their  never- weary  perfecutor,  Vex- 
"  ation-oe-spirit;   they  are  eager  to  efcape 
"  from  him;  yet  rinding  in  the  part  of  the  town 
"  which  they  have  entered,  no  traces  of  the  road 
«  which  they  had  formerly  been  told  led  to  the 
'•  Celeftlal  &ty,  they  are  deterred  from  any  at- 
«  tempt  to  feek  for  il,   by  Evil-conscience, 
«<  who  whifpers  to  them,  that  if  any  fuch  road 
"  exife  they  will  no  longer  be  deemed  worthy 
"  to  walk  in  it.     They  therefore  gladly  follow 
«  the  guides,  whom  the  prince  of  that  place  pro- 
vides for  them;   by  whom  they   are  led  back 
"  through   by-ways,   to  the  houfe  of  Mr.  Phi- 
«  losophy,   which   you   palled  before   you  ar- 
«  rived  at  the  Interpreter's;  and  there  Igno- 
«  rance   and   Folly   conduft   them  blindfold 
«  into  the  black  temple  of  Atheism,  where  they 
-  remain   till    the  period    when   they    are    taken 
«  thence,  to   be   referred   in  everlafung  chains, 


(     MI    I 

♦«  under  darknefs,  unto  the  judgment  of  the  great 
"  day. — Such  are  the  fates  which  await  thofe 
H  who  follow  earthly  Pleasures  into  forbidden 
"  paths;  while  the  voice  of  Joy  and  Health 
"  is  continually  in  the  dwellings  of  the  righteous; 
"  who,  ufing  this  world,  but  not  abufing  it,  have 
1  alone  the  promife  of  true  happinefs  in  this  life, 
'*  as  well  as  of  everlafting  glory  in  that  which  is 
"  to  come." 

Good-intent  heard  this  difcourfe  with  ftrong 
emotions  of  horror  at  the  dangers  which  he  had 
efcaped,  and  alfo  of  thankfulnefs  to  his  King, 
who  had  appointed  him  fo  excellent  a  guide  as 
Self-denial.  Inftead  of  being  weaned  by  the 
difficulty  of  the  way,  lie  now  found  it  become  ib 
eafy  to  him,  that  he  would  have  been  contented 
to  afcend  a  fleeper  mountain,  for  the  fake  of  the 
benefits  which  he  was  fenfible  he  derived  from 
the  fociety  of  fuch  a  companion.  When  they 
had  proceeded  together  as  far  as  it  was  at  that 
time  requifite  Self-denial  mould  accompany 
him,  they  parted;  and  I  faw  in  my  dream  that 
Good-intent  went  onwards  alone,  till  it  was 
almoft  dark,  when  he  dimly  defcried  before  him  a 
houfe  at  no  great  diftance;  and  while  he  was 
confidering  within  himfelf  whether  or  not  it  were 
the  houfe  Beautiful,  at  which  he  meant  that  night 
■>dge,  the  door  of  it  was  opened,  and  a  man 


came  forth  to  meet  him,  inviting  him  to  enter. 
Then  the  pilgrim  afked  him  whether  the  houfe  to 
which  he  helonged  were  indeed  the  fame  as  he 
fuppofed  it  to  be. 

"  Undoubtedly ,"  faid  the  man;  "  this  is  no 
"other  than  the  houfe  Beautiful,  the  habitation 
"  of  the  Virtues;  and  it  is  my  office,  as  their 
"  porter,  to  admit  fuch  guefts  as  are  worthy  to 
u  b    entertained  by  them." 

"When  Good- in  tent  heard  this,  he  gladly 
accompanied  him  towards  the  houfe ;  and  as  they 
went  along,  the  pilgrim  looked  for  the  lions,  which 
he  knew  had  formerly  been  kept  there.  He  per- 
ceived that  there  were  indeed  two  animals  who  lay 
at  no  great  diftance  from  the  portal,  one  on  either 
fide ;  they  did  not  appear  to  him  fo  large  as  any 
lions  which  he  had  elfe where  feen;  but  he  could 
not  by  that  light  di(lin£Hy  obferve  their  fhapes : 
however,  he  was  careful  not  to  approach  them  too 
near,  though  he  concluded  that  they  were  afleep, 
becaufe  he  did  not  hear  them  roar. 

When  he  had  entered  the  porch,  he  requefted 
the  porter  to  let  his  miftrefles  know  that  he  was 
come  there  to  alk  for  entertainment  and  lodging, 
fuch  as  he  had  heard  it  was  the  cuftom  of  that 
houfe  to  afford  to  pilgrims;  and  to  prove  that 
he  had  good  claims  to  the  hofpitality  he  fought*, 
lie  was  proceeding  to  tell  of  what  parentage  he- 


(     "3     ) 

came,  and  how  he  had  entered  the  way  by  the 
Wicket-Gate,  according  to  the  rules   prefcribed 
for  all  pilgrims  by  the  king  of  the  country  whither 
he  was  bound ; — but  the  porter  interrupted  him — 

"It  is  indifferent  to  us,"  faid  he,  "  from  what 
"  lineage  you  fpring,  and  in  what  paths  you  have 
"  walked:  we  account  it  fufficient  if  your  foul  be 
"  poflefTed  with  a  defire  to  behold  and  to  love  the 
**  fair  damfels  who  inhabit  this  manfion ;  and, 
".  provided  your  heart  beats  in  fympathetic  con- 
"  cord  with  theirs,  you  are  free  to  regulate  your 
*i  conduct  by  whatfoever  laws  your  own  natural 
"  temperament  may  lead  you  to  prefer." 

"  I  know,"-  faid  Good-intent,  "  that  there 
"  are  fome  who  think  works  of  no  avail,  pro-s 
**  vided  the  faith  be  right ;  but  I  did  not  expect  to 
"  find  that  doctrine  pro  fe  fled  in  this  houfe  in  fo 
*t  extenfive  and  dangerous  a  fenfe  as  I  underftand 
"  your  words  to  imply." 

With  that  the  porter  fmiled.  "  You  will  be 
"  as  little  queftioned  here,"  faid  he,  "  about  your 
"  faith,-  as  about  your  works.  The  affections  of 
"  the  heart  are  all  that  my  miflreiTes  regard:  from 
"  what  principles  they  fpring,  or  to  what  actions 
"  they  impel,  we  here  confider  as  alike  immate- 
*  rial.  Therefore,  whether  thou  be  a  defcendant 
w  from  Christian,  or  a  difciple  of  Bramah, 
"  whether  thou  be  by  profeilion  a  robber,  aa 
L  % 


(    »4    ) 

"  afTafTin,  or  a  faint;— if  thy  heart  glow  with  a 
"  facred  enthufiafm  in  the  caufe  of  the  Moral 
"  Virtues,  enter!  freely  eater  their  confecrated 
"abode!" 

The  porter  then  rang  his  bell,  and  a  damfel 
appeared,  ta  whom  he  gave  it  in  charge  to  con- 
duct Good- intent  to  her  miftrefs.  The  damfel 
was  fair,  and  feemed  very  richly  attired ;  but  her 
drefs  was  fo  much  covered  with  ornaments,  that 
its  true  texture  could  not  be  difeemed.  The- 
pilgrim  was  not  much  pleafed  with  the  difccurfe 
of  the  poFter,  which,  however,  lie  did  not  very 
clearly  comprehend;  but  he  felt  fo  fecure  of  re- 
ceiving edification  from  the  inftruitions  of  the 
venerable  matrons  within,  that  he  did  not  hefitate 
to  follow  her  who  offered  herfelf  as  his  con- 
du&refs;  to  whom,  as  they  pafled  along,  he  ex- 
prefTed  his  impatience  to  join  in  the  devotions  of 
Piety,  to  receive  the  k-fibns  of  Prudence, 
and  to  participate  in  the  happinefs  which  the  hand 
of  Charity  dirTufed  around. 

When  lie  fpoke  thus,  the  damfel  who  was 
with  him  flopped,  and,  looking  at  him  with 
fome  furprize,  "  You  muft,  certainly,  Sir,"  feud 
flie,  4i  know  very  little  of  the  preirnt  ftate  of 
ei  things  in  general,  a:id  of  this  family  in  parti- 
44  cular,  if  you  call  my  miflreflbs  by  fuch  ami- 
"  queued  names." 


(    us    ) 

"How!"  faid  Good-intent,  "  does  this 
"  houfe  belong  to  any  other  miftrefles  than  thofa 
"  I  mentioned?  "" 

"  O  no!"  replied  the  damfel;  "  thofe  ladies 
**  are  (till  the  owners  of  the.  manfion  ;  only  they 
"  are  now  known  by  more  modern  and  expreflive 
"  appellations.  She  whom  you  call  Charity, 
"  has  affumed  the  name-  of  Philanthropy; 
"  and.  Prudence  is  dignified  by  the  tide  of 
*!  Mental- energy.  As  for  their  elder  fifter, 
"  Piety,  fhe,  poor  gentlewoman  !  was  always 
"  fubject  to  oceafional  di  ft  radii  ons  of  mind,  when 
"  the  moon  was  at  the  full ;  and  fome  time  iincc, 
"  her  judgment  became  fo  much  weakened,  that 
"  {he  ran  away  from  her  fillers,  and  wandered 
"about  the  country  to  tabernacles  and  conven- 
"tides,  whereupon  her  friends,  willing  to  hide 
'b  her  failings  from  the  world,  fhut  her  up  in  a 
"  private  mad-houfe.  Since  then,  mv  millrefTes 
"have  taken  to  live  with  them  a  younger  fitter 
'•*  of  theirs,  named  Sensibility,  a  very  amiable 
"  perfon,  whofe  merits  were  formerly  little  known, 
4<  bscaufe  (he  had  the  misfortune  in  her  vouth  to 
**  marry  Common^ sense  ;  a  churl,  who  mifufed, 
"  and  often  confined  her;  but  at  laft  Mental- 
"  energy  found  means  to  free  her  from  the 
"  bondage  in  which  he  held  her,  and  to  bring  her 
"  hither  j  and  her  bufband,  after  making  a  few 


(     "6     ) 

s<  ineffectual  attempts  to  perfuade  her  to  return  to 
"  him,  has  now  ceafed  to  moled  her,  or  even,  it 
"  is  faid,  to  wifh  for  her  company." 

Good-intent  exprefTed  much  aftonifhment 
at  this  recital.  "  Since  (o  many  alterations,'* 
faid  he,  "  have  taken  place  in  a  family  where  I 
"  fo  little  expected  to  meet  with  any  change,  I 
"  need  no  longer  think  it  extraordinary  that  your 
"  porter  {hould  be  fo  unlike  the  defcription  I  had 
"  heard  of  him  who  was  called  Watchful, 
"  who  formerly  lived  here;  nor  that  your  appfear- 
u  ance  (hould  fo  little  referable  that  of  the  damfels 
"  Discretion  and  Humble-mikd,  who  re- 
44  ceived  my  anceftors  fo  kindly." 

"  Thofe  three  perfons  died  a  long  while  fince,"' 
replied  {lie  ;  "  the  prefent  porter  is  called  Senti- 
11  ment,  and  my  name  is  Refinement;  we 
"  both  came  here  juft  about  the  time  when  Piety 
"  eloped." 

As  fhe  ended  thefe  words,  (he  threw  open  the 
doors  of  a  fpacious  faloon,  in  which  her  miftrefTes 
were  fitting.  Their  employments  occafioned  new 
furprize  to  Good-intent.  Philanthropy 
fat  in  the  window  with  a  telefcope,  looking  through 
the  (hades  of  night,  which  had  now  totally  over- 
fpread  the  earth,  for  invifible  objects  of  benevo- 
lence, in  unknown  regions.  -Mental-energy 
held  in  her  hands  a  flint  and  fteel,  and  flruck  out 


t  "7  )    . 

fparks,  which,  when  her  foftering  breath  had 
blown  them  into  flame,  had  power  to  caufe  the 
heart  to  beat  with  ten-fold  violence;  while  the 
fumes  of  the  fmoke,  afcending  to  the  head,  occa- 
fioned  a  dizzinefs  of  the  brain,  and  a  fufpenfion 
of  the  reafoning  faculties.  Sensibility  lay  on 
a  fopha,  half  bending  herfelf  over  a  young  afs's 
colt,  which  {he  tenderly  carefTed,  and  bedewed 
with  a  copious  fhower  of  tears. 

The  entracce  of  the  pilgrim,  however,  inter- 
rupted their  occupations;  and  they  all  rofe  to 
receive  him,  though  with  different  demeanours. 
Philanthropy  had  fo  much  weakened  her 
eyes  by  the  continual  ufe  of  her-  telefcope,  that 
fhe  was  now  become  unable  to  difcern  any  but 
diftant  objects;  advancing,  therefore,  haftily  to 
receive  the  gueft,  whom  Refinement  an- 
nounced to  her,  (lie  ran  full  againft  him,  not 
perceiving  where  he  flood,  and  almoft  pufhed  him 
down:  Mental-energy,  difdaining  common 
forms,  took  little  notice  of  him;  but  foft  Sensi- 
bility eagerly  threw  her  arms  around  the  youth, 
and  gazing  on  his  comely  form,  forgot  her  afs, 
and  wept  over  him. 

Good-intent  was  a  little  difconcerted  by  the 
conduct  of  each  of  the  fifteis;  but  when  he  had 
at  laft  difengaged  himfelf  from  the  unexpected 
embrace  of  the  younger,  he  fat  down  by  them,. 


UK 


t     118     ) 

and  attempted  to  converfe  with  them.  Their 
modes  of  exprefiion  were,  however,  fo  new  to 
him,  that  he  profited  much  lefs  from  their  dif- 
eourfe  than  he  had  hoped  to  do.  When  f upper 
was  ferved  up,  he  was  glad  j  for  he  felt  himfelf  in 
need  of  fome  refreshment,  after  the  fatigue  of  that 
day's  pilgrimage ;  but  though  the  banquet  ap- 
peared very  plentiful,  yet,  when  the  flowers  which 
had  garnimed  the  dimes  were  removed,  he  could 
find  no  food  fufficiently  fubftantial  to  fatisfy  his 
hunger. 

However,  after  the  meal  was  ended,  his  three 
hoflefTes  feemed  to  take  more  pains  than  they  had 
done  before  to  render  their  converfation  intelli- 
gible to  him;  and  Mental-energy,  addrefling 
herfelf  to  him,  entered  into  a  long  harrangue 
againft  the  various  prejudices  which  had  fo  long 
enilaved  the  human  mind,  and  the  manifold  abiifes 
which  cuftcm  had  introduced  into  the  world.  It 
was  now  time,  (he  afferted,  that  men  mould 
think  for  themfelves  ;  and,,  inftead  of  refpetfting 
any  opinion  becaufe  forfooth  they  had  received 
it  from  their  fathers,  they  ought  to  require  no 
oiher  proof  of  its  fallacy,  than  that  perfons  To 
credulous  and  fo  ignorant  had  believed  it  to  he 
true. 

She  would  have  expatiated  longer  on  this  (uh- 
je&,  had  not  Sensibility  interrupted  her  b 


(     "9     ) 

frefn  (bower  of  tears,  which  flowed  at  the  recol- 
lection of  the  fufrerings  of  the  many  haplefs  vic- 
tims of  thofe  prejudices  and  cuftoms  againfi:  which 
her  fifter  was  declaiming.  When  her  voice  could 
find  a.  paflage,  fhe  recounted  to  Good-intent 
many  a  doleful  tale  of  fons  of  Genius,  whofe 
great  and  elevated  fouls  had  fcorned  to  be  confined 
within  the  narrow  rules  of  juftice;  and  of  daugh- 
ters of  Tenderness,  who  had  yielded  to  the 
di&ates  of  nature,  and  of  their  own  amiably-fuf- 
ceptible  hearts,  but  who,  in  confequence,  had  been 
branded  with  obloquy  by  civilized  fociety ;  while 
fome  of  their  number,  (till  more  unfortunate,  had 
been  configned  by  the  mercilefs  laws  of  their 
country  to  prifons,  banifhment,  and  death. 

To  divert  the  melancholy  which  narratives  like 
thefe  were  likely  to  infpire,  Philanthropy 
jiext  took  up  the  difcourfe,  and  began  to  detail  her 
plans  for  the  general  felicity  of  all  mankind.  Of 
the  prefent  generation  fhe  faid  little^  only  recom- 
mending as  objects  of  the  mofl:  particular  benevo- 
lence thofe  whom  narrow-minded  zealots  repro- 
bated as  tranfgreffors  of  every  law  divine  and 
human;  but  future  ages  claimed  her  greateft  at- 
tention ;  and,  how  difficult  foever  it  might  be  to 
judge  what  the  interefts  and  inclinations  of  men 
yet  unhorri  might  lead  them  to  delire  or  to  (bun, 
fhe  contended  that  the  facrifice  of  myriads  of  the 


(     126    ) 

-pvefent  race,  and  even  the  univerfal  temporary 
fubftitution  of  mifei  v  for  happinefs,  were  eligible 
means,  if  through  them  the  moil  remote  pofiibility 
of  any  future  contingent  good  might  be  attained. 

The  capacity  of  Good-intent  was  not  fuffi- 
ciently  clear  to  comprehend  the  arguments  by 
which  (lie  fupported  her  opinions ;  and  though 
he  laboured  to  attend,  yet,  the  toils  of  the  day 
contributing  to  overpower  him,  he  at  laft  found 
himfelf  unahle  to  refill:  the  drowfinefs  which 
came  upon  him.  Wherefore,  taking  the  op- 
portunity of  a  paufe  in  her  difcourfe,  he  re- 
queued leave  to  retire  to  his  chamber;  and  his 
three  hoftefies  confented  to  his  petition,  though 
not  without  exprefling  fome  difpleafure  at  the 
coldnefs  and  want  of  enthufiafm  with  which  he 
had  heard  their  difcourfe. 

He  did  not,  however,  fall  afleep  fo  foon  as  he 
had  expected ;  for  when  he  was  alone,  the  re- 
collection of  what  had  pafled  occupied  his  mind, 
and  afforded  him  much  fubject  for  reflection. 
He  confidcred  that  the  opinions  of  Mental- 
energy  and  of  Philanthropy  led  to  many 
conclufions,  no  lefs  abfurd  than  dangerous;  and 
as  for  the  perfons  whofe  misfortunes  had  cal- 
led forth  the  tears  of  Sensibility,  however 
their    conduct    might    have    been    gloiild    ov<  , 


in   her   difcourfe,    he  did  not  heiitate   ro   octet 


flliU!      ! 
ro   d( 


(    is*    ) 

mine,  that  all  the  calamities  which  had  befallen 
them  had  been  the  natural  confequence  and  the 
juft  reward  of  their  own  evil  deeds.  "  O  that 
«  Piety  Hill  dwelt  in  this  houfe  !"  faid  he  ;  "  for 
"  I  perceive  that  while  me  is  abfent  her  filler 
"  Virtues  merit  no  confidence,  let  them  diftii:- 
"  guifli  themfelves  by  what  new  names  they 
"  may." 

Being  impatient  to  quit  a  fociety,  in  which 
he  was  much  difappointed  to  find  himfclf  fo 
little  edified,  he  refolved  to  purfue  his  journey, 
as  foon  as  he  mould  have  obtained  a  fight  of 
thofe  rarities  which  he  remembered  it  had  al- 
ways been  the  cuitom  of  that  houfe  to  fhew 
unto  pilgrims.  In  the  morning,  therefore,  he 
told  the  three  fitters  that  he  had  underftood 
there  were  laid  up  in  their  poffeffion  many 
curious  records ;  alfo  many  famous  weapons, 
wherewith  the  mighty  men  of  old  time  had 
achieved  notable  exploits  ;  and  he  fignified 
withal  his  dcfire  of  being  admitted  to  a  fight 
of  thefe.  So  they  readily  confented  to  fhew 
him  the  room  in  which  all  their  rarities  were 
kept ;  but  as  they  were  on  their  way  thither, 
Philanthropy  and  Senfilility  informed  him  that 
they  had  difcarded  from  their  collcclion  thofe 
ancient  weapons  concerning  which  he  had  in- 
quired, becawfe  the  ufes  which  had  been  made 

M 


(       I«       ) 

of  them  by  their  former  owners,  namely  by 
Joflma,  Sampjbn,  Gideon,  and  the  reft,  had  been 
too  lavage  and  fangu'inary,  fuch  as  no  friend  to 
humanity  could  reflect  on  without  the  mod 
painful  fenfations ;  the  very  idea  of  war  ex- 
citing horror  in  a  feeling  mind  •  and  every  fol- 
dier  who  bore  arms  in  (what  he  was  pleafed  to 
ftyle*  in  mockery)  the  fervice  of  his  country,  de- 
ferving  to  be  reprobated  by  univerfal  nature,  as 
the  bale  tool  of  barbarous  defpots,  and  the 
hired  affaflin  of  his  fellow  men. 

Having  received  this  previous  notice,  Good- 
intent  was  confiderably  furprifed,  on  entering 
the  room,  that  the  firft  object  on  which  he  cad 
his  eyes  mould  be  a  heap  of  cannon-balls  and 
grape-fliot,  and  befide  it  a  pile  of  fwords  and 
pikes,  dropping  with  recent  blood.  He  could 
not  forbear  afiriiig  how  ladies  of  fuch  compaf- 
fionate  difpoiitions  could  have  afforded  a  place 
in  their  repofitory  to  thofe  inftruments  of  death. 

"  We  honour  thefe,"  faid  Mental-energy,  "  as 
H  inftruments  of  in  (Inaction  ;  and  as  fuch,  fome 
«  of  our  moft  valued  friends  have  made  a  glo- 
tl  rious  ufe  of  them,  in  fubverting  the  prejudice 
"  of  infatuated  nations,  who  could  no  oth  irwife 
"  be  taught  to  prefer  light  to  darkneis,  and 
"  emancipation  to  bondage." 

"  What  light,  or  what  emancipation,"  cried 


(  m  ) 

the  pilgrim,  u  can  have  been  communicated  to 
"  the  perfons,  whofe  blood  is  flili  reeking  on 
"  thofe  fatal  blades  V 

"  The  fufferings  of  individuals  are  of  no  iai» 
u  portance,"  anfwered  Mental-energy,  u  when 
"  put  in  competition  with  the  univerfal  good 
"  of  the  human  fpecies.  A  mind  truly  great 
"  will  rife  above  the  paltry  confideration  of  the 
"  definition  of  a  few  quiet  but  mean-fpirited 
"nations  by  fire  and  fword,  if  by  fuch  means 
".  the  power  of  the  guardians  of  Liberty  can  be 
"  extended." 

Now  Good-intent,  during  this  time,  had  fix- 
ed his  eyes  on  an  engine  which  was  new  to 
him.  In  its  form  it  refemblcd  an  axe ;  but  it 
was  fufpended  by  ropes  within  a  wooden  frame ; 
and  he  afked  Sis  conduclrefies  for  what  ufe  it 
was  intended. 

"That,"  faid  Philanthropy,  "is  an  in  Mr  u. 
"  ment  dear  to  humanity :  for  by  it  more  than 
"  a  million  of  the  enemies  of  the  human  race 
"  have  been  fwept  from  the  earth." 

"  What  enemies?"  faid  the  pilgrim ;  "  Is  it  de- 
"L  figned  as  a  gin  for  the  deftru&ion  of  wolves 
"  or  of  ferpents  ?" 

"  Of  monflers  more  deteftable  than  either," 
replied  Philanthropy;  «  of  depots  and  their 


(     «4     ) 

While  flie  {poke,  Good-intent  looked  into  a 
bafket  which  flood  behind  the  axe  ;  and  behold ! 
it  was  full  of  human  heads.  "  What  do  I  fee  V9 
cried  he ;  "  do  you,  who  call  yourfelves  the 
"  friends  of  humanity,  authorife  fuch  a  {laughter 
"  as  this?  I  perceive  the  heads  of  men,  of  wo- 
11  men,  nay,  of  children  ;~ where  fliall  we  feek 
"  for  the  enemies  of  the  human  fpecies,  if 
rt  not  among  thofe  who  have  perpetrated  this 
"  execrable  maffacre  V* 

"  In  giving  my  fanclion  to  it/'  faid  Philan- 
thropy, "  I  conlider  not  the  prefent  race  of 
"  men,  which  might  probably  have  enjoyed 
"  greater  tranquillity,  had  the  ancient  order  of 
"  things  been  fuifered  to  continue  ;  but  my  en- 
u  larged  view  comprehends  at  one  glance  all 
"  future  ages.  The  human  fpecies,  thus  purged 
"  of  its  drofs  will  gradually  refine  itfclf,  till  it 
"  fhall  have  attained  univerfal  perfection  ;  and 
a  when  no  trace  even  of  the  pofterity  of  the 
«  foes  of  Liberty  fliall  be  left  upon  the  earth, 
"  her  friends  will  feaft  undifturbed  on  the  fruits 
*  of  her  glorious  tree,  which  can  flourifli  in  no 
a  foil  where  its  roots  are  not  moiftened  with 
"  the  blood  of  traitors." 

Good-intent  now  turned  from  Philanthropy 
with  horror  ;  and,  obferving  a  bottle  placed  on 
a  melf  above,  he  demanded  of  Senfibility  what 
were  its  contents. 


(   m  ) 

'"  The  tears  of  captive  princes  and  their  or- 
"  phan  children/'  replied  ihe. 

"  Doubtlefs,"  faid  he,  "  your  own,  which 
u  flow  fo  freely,  are  mixed  with  them.;" 

"  O  no !?  faid  fhe  ;  "  during  the  filling  of 
"  that  bottle,  I  was  engaged  as  chief  mourner 
"  at  the  funeral  of  an  affaffin,  and  all  my  tears 
u  were  {lied  for  him." 

Now  I  faw  in  my  dream,  that  the  pilgrim 
was  filled  with  great  amazement ;  and  he  cart 
in  his  mind  who  thefe  perfons  mould  be,  whofe 
natures  agreed  fo  ill  with  the  excellent  names 
they  bore.  So  he  bethought  himfelf  of  his  book, 
which  had  ever  been  his  faithful  counfellor  in 
times  of  need ;  but  as  he  drew  it  out  of  his 
bofom,  they  who  flood  by  mocked  at  him  ;  and 
MmtaUenergy  allured  him  that  it  was  unfit  to 
engage  the  attention  of  a  wife  man  :  Philan- 
thropy afTerted  that  all  the  miferies  of  mankind 
had  originated  in  the  doctrines  which  it  con- 
tained :  and  Senfibttty  recoiled  with  horror 
from  the  punifhments  which,  it  denounced 
againft  fuffering  guilt.  Nevcrthelefs,  Good- 
intent  grafped  the  book  firmly,  not  heeding 
their  idle  clamours;  and,  when  he  had  opened 
it,  he  found  written  therein,  "  Every  good  tree 
"  bringeth  forth  good  fruit,  but  a  corrupt  tree 
iC  evil  fruit ;  wherefore,  by  their  fruits  ye  mail 
"  know  them." 


(     126     ) 

Then  he  faid  to  himfelf,  "  When  I  behold 
"  the  fruits  which  thefe  bring  forth,  can  I  pofli- 
"  bly  helitate  to  believe  that  their  root  is  a  root 
"  of  deceit,  and  of  all  nngodlinefs  ?"  So  he  put 
the  book  into  his  bofom,  and  turned  himfelf 
about  to  depart. 

But  they,  not  willing  fo  to  lofe  him,  fought 
to  detain  him,  and  afked  him  whither  he  was 
going. 

"  I  am  going,"  faid  he,  "  to  obey  the  com- 
"  inandi  of  my  Heavenly  Father,  who  hath 
"  warned  me  to  flee  from  all  who  defpife  his 
"  covenant,  and  rebel  againft  his  laws  ;  and  if, 
*  to  an  earthly  parent,  obedience  be  an  inviola- 
"  ble  duty"— 

"  An  inviolable  duty  !**  faid  Mental-energy, 
with  a  fcornful  fmile ;  "  it  was  indeed  ima- 
"  gined  fuch  in  the  ages  of  darknefs ;  but  fo 
"  grievous  an  obftacle  to  the  natural  rights  of 
"  free-born  infants,  it  was  one  of  our  firft 
"  achievements  to  overthrow." 

"  What,"  faid  Good-intent,  "  would  you 
<;  teach  a  child  that  he  owes  no  gratitude"— 

"  Gratitude  is  an  unpardonable  weaknefs  in 
il  the  bofom  of  a  wife  man,"  returned  Mental* 
energy ;  "  we  hold  it  to  be  no  part  either 
"  of  juftice  or  of  virtue  ;  and  an  enlarged 
"  mind  will  fcorn  to  narrow  itfelf  to  the  fenfe 


(     **7    ) 

"  of  any  perfonal  benefit  which  an  individual 
"  may  have  conferred ." 

Good-Intent  was  ftill  more  aftonifhed  at  this 
maxim,  than  he  had  been  at  any  of  thofe  which 
had  preceded  it ;  and  indignantly  replied,  "  It 
"  would  be  lofing  time  to  demonftrate  the  ab- 
"  furdity  of  your  doarines,  while  the  heart  of 
u  every  man,  to  whom  nature  hath  not  denied 
"  the  common  feelings  of  humanity,  muft  re- 
«  volt  at  the  confequences  necefTarily  deducible 
a  from  them.    Heaven  grant  to  me,  that  I  may 
u  never  receive  any  benefit  from  the  meaneft 
"  of  my  fellow-creatures,  without  a  due  and 
"  thankful  fenfe  of  the  obligation  under  which 
"  it  lays  me  ;  while  I  conftantly  cherifh,  as  the 
"nobleft  principle  of  my  condua,  that  bound- 
"  lefs  gratitude  which  I  owe  to  him,  of  whom 
"  my  life,  and  all  the  bleflings  which  endear  it 
"  to  me,  are  the  gifts,  and  from  whofe  future 
u  bounty  his  own  gracious  word  encourages  me 
"  to  hope  for  that  more  excellent  recompenfe  of 
"  reward,  which  he  has  promifed  to  all  thofe 
"  who  faithfully  keep  his  ftatutes  unto  tlie  end.,, 
"And    does   thy    mercenary   fpirit,"    faid 
Mentalenergy,   «  require  the  hope  of  recom- 
«  penfe  as  an  incentive  to  virtue?    Learn,  ra- 
«  ther  from  us,    the  more  dignified  fentimenr, 
"  that  virtue  is  its  own  reward ;  and  Mead  of 


(     ia«     ) 

a  travelling  through  defolate  regions  in  fearch 
"  of  a  country,  which  certain  friends  of  ours  can 
"  afford  thee  fufficient  proof  exifls  only  in  thy 
"  own  imagination,  be  content  to  remain  with 
"  us,  the  reprefentatives  of  Virtue  upon  earth. 
"  Our  inftrucYions  (hall  gradually  difengage  thy 
"  foul  from  the  hideous  bonds  of  prejudice,  and 
"  elevate  it  to  thofe  liberal  principles,  by  which 
u  the  heart  is  refined,  and  the  energy  of  the 
"  mind  increafed  ;  and  as  a  tender  relaxation 
"  from  feverer  {Indies,  behold  our  fitter,  Senfi- 
"  bility,  who,  from  thy  firfl  entrance,  has  re- 
"  garded  thee  with  the  eyes  of  affedion,  and 
"  who  pants  to  form'with  thee  thatfympathy  of 
"  fouls,  which  is  pointed  out  by  reafon  and  by 
"  nature,  as  affording  the  faired  profpecl:  of 
"  human  happinefs." 

While  Mental-energy  was  fpeaking  thus, 
the  countenance  and  geflures  of  Vendibility 
exprefled  her  acquiefcence  in  the  propofal. 
At  firft,  fhe  looked  paflionately  at  the  pil- 
grim, and  fighed,  and  wept,  and  fmiled  ;  and 
when  her  filler  had  ended,  and  he  flood  afto- 
mihed,  and  hefitating  what  to  reply,  fhe  fnd- 
denly  fprang  forwards,  and  threw  herfelf  into 
his  arms. 

Good-intent,  difpleafed  and  difgufted,  fhook 
off  her  embrace  as  foon  as  he  was  able.  "  I 
«  pray  you,  madam,"  faid  he,  "  recoiled  your- 


(     i*9    ) 

"  felf  a  little  ;  I  had  been  told  that  you  were 
"  the  wife  of  another  man." 

"  And  if  I  am,"  faid  (lie,  u  my  conduit  is 
"  not  the  lefs  reconcileable  to  the  ftricteft  recti- 
u  tude.  I  experienced  in  my  former  connexion 
"  the  abfurdity  of  expecting  that  the  inclina- 
"  tions  and  wifhes  of  two  human  beings  fhould 
"  coincide  through  any  long  period  of  time  ; 
u  but  though  my  tyrant  may  imagine  that 
iC  the  few  vain  ceremonies  which  parTed  be- 
"  tween  us,  have  indiflblubly  bound  me  to  him 
"  for  the  whole  of  my  wretched  life,  what  na- 
"  tnral  right  can  he  plead  to  (hackle  my  free 
"  foul,  or  to  condemn  my  perfon  to  that  vifion- 
u  ary  itate  of  cold  celii>acy  which  Nature  her- 
"  felf  abhors  ?  If  therefore,  my  heart  no  longer 
"  acknowledges  any  fympathy  with  his,  where- 
u  fore  may  it  not  be  both  practicable  and  eligi- 
°  ble  for  me  to  offer  it  to  another,  in  whofe  re- 
"  ciprocation  of  kindnefs  it  may  find  fome  in- 
"  demnification  for  its  former  unmerited  fuf- 
11  ferings  ?" 

u  Undoubtedly,"  faid  Philanthropy,"  our  fitter 
<l  is  in  the  right.  All  things  are  lawful,  when 
"  taken  in  their  proper  connexion  ;  and  Nature 
"  has  implanted  no  dellres,  of  which  it  is  not 
"  our  primary  duty  to  feek  the  gratification. 
a  Since,  therefore,  happinefs  is  the  ultimate 
"  end  which  that  unerring  guide  impels  us  to 


(     *3°     ) 

"  purfue,  no  friend  to  reafon,  humanity,  and 
"  toleration,  can  cenfure  thofe  who  feek  to  at- 
"  tain  that  end,  by  the  ufe  of  any  means  which 
"  may  appear  to  themfelves  the  bed  calculated 
"  to  enfure  their  fuccefs." 

"  There  could  exift  no  degree  of  atrocity," 
faid  Good-intent,  '•'  of  which  the  perpetration 
"  might  not  be  juttifted,  if  arguments  like  thefe 
te.  could  juftify  it  y  but,  happily,  their  futility  is  as 
"  evident  as  their  tendency  is  pernicious;  where- 
"  fore,  away  from  me,  ye  wicked !  I  will  keep 
"  the  commandments  of  my  God  !" 

And  fo  faymg,  he  haftened  out  of  the  houfe, 
giving  no  other  heed  to  all  their  vain  dif- 
cpurfes ;  neither  had  they  power  to  detain  him 
againfl  his  will,  though  they  made  him  many 
fair  promifes,  that  if  he  muft  needs  proceed 
upon  his  journey,  they  would  fhew  him  a  bet- 
ter road,  and  conduct  him  to  a  pleafanter  val- 
ley than  the  valley  of  Humiliation,  through 
which  lie  meant  to  pafs. 

Now  I  faw  in  my  dream,  that,  as  he  went 
out  of  the  houfe,  he  obferved  it  more  particu- 
larly than  he  had  been  able  to  do  at  the  late 
hour  at  which  he  had  entered  it  the  night  be- 
fore ;  and  behold  !  the  walls  were  not  built  of 
brick  or  (lone,  or  of  any  -other  fuch  common 
and  durable  materials,  but  altogether  of  books, 
piled  in  order  one  on  another,  without  any  ap- 


(     13'     ) 

parent  cement,  fo  that  the  whole  edifice  was 
iliaken  by  every  blaft:  from  heaven  which  blew 
againit  it.  When  the  pilgrim  perceived  this, 
he  made  the  more  hiile,  left  it  fhbuld  prefently 
rail,  and  crufli  thofe  who  ftood  nigh  in  its  ruins ; 
and  pafliig  by  the  two  beafts,  which  at  night 
he  had  taken  for  lions,  he  now  law  that  they 
were  only  apes,  which  fat  on  the  oppoiite  iides 
of  the  porch,  and  grinned  and  chattered  at  him 
as  he  paffed  along. 

So  when  he  had  gotten  out  of  their  reach,  he 
flopped  to  look  about  him  ;  and  he  perceived 
that  he  bad  not  yet,  as  he  had  fappofed,  attain- 
ed the  highefl  fummit  of  the  hill  Difficulty  ; 
for  a  rocky  afcent  (lill  remained  for  him  to 
climb  ;  on  the  top  of  which  he  defcried  a  houfe, 
built  all  of  hewn  (lone,  and  of  the  mod  admi- 
rable architecture  ;  but  he  obferved  fuch  a  re- 
femblauce  between  it  and  the  other  which  flood 
on  the  fandy  ground  below  it,  that  he  immedi- 
ately concluded  it  to  have  been  the  model,  in 
imitation  whereof  that  which  he  had  jufl  quitted 
had  been  erected. 

Then  he  reafoned  within  himfeif,  faying, 
"  I  have  furely  been  deceived ;  the  frail  ediiicc 
"  which  I  have  left  behind  me,  and  which  feems 
"  built  to  lafl  but  for  a  day,  can  never  be  the 
"  houfe  at  which  my  anceftors  were  entertained 
"  fo  long  ago,  and  which  in  their  time,  it  was 


(     f£*     ) 

"  well  known,  had  flood  for  ages.  This,  ra- 
"  ther  which  I  fee  above  me,  muft  be  it ;  and 
"  doubtlefs,  on  ray  arrival  there,  I  fhah  learn 
"  wlio  thofe  impoftors  are  who  have  fought  to 
u  miflead  me." 

So  he  haflened  to  climb  up  the  rock,  fup- 
porting  his  fteps  with  the  trufty  ftafF  which  had 
been  given  to  him  by  Self-denial;  and  as  he 
again  experienced  its  ufe,  he  congratulated 
himfelf  on  the  care  with  which  he  had  prefer  v- 
ed  it ;  remembering  that  Senfibility,  as  (lie  em- 
braced him,  had  made  feveral  attempts  to  draw 
it  out  of  "his  hand.  When  he  had  reached  the 
top,-  he  beheld  the  two  lions ;  but  they  were 
.chained,  and  made  no  effort  to  molefl  him 
as  he  joyfully  paffed  between  them,  and  rang 
the  bell  at  Xhe  gate,  which  was  prefently 
opened  unto  him  by  the  ancient  porter  IVaicbr 
ful. 

While  the  pilgrim  was  fpeaking  with  him, 
the  three  virgins  who  were  called  Piety,  Pru- 
dence, and  Charity.,  and  who  had  never  re- 
linquifhed  thofe  venerable  names,  themfelves 
came  forth  from  an  inner  chamber,  and  re- 
ceived their  gueft  with  words  of  kindnefs ;  and 
Piety  faid  unto  him,  "  Welcome,  young  man, 
"  welcome  to  our  dwelling  !  Thou  haft  neither 
"  been  fo  foolilh  as  to  be  deluded  by  the  pre- 
sences of  thofe  who  faifely  call  themfei/es 


(     *33    ) 

"  the  Moral  Virtues,  nor  fo  wicked  as  to  de- 
"  light  in  the  deeds  which  they  vainly  fanclion. 
"  Thou  art  therefore  worthy  to  be  admitted 
"  into  the  habitation  of  the  Chriftian  Virtues ; 
"  with  whom  none  dwell  but  fuch  as  do  fmcere- 
"  ly  believe  and  faithfully  pradtife  all  the  words 
«  which  are  written  in  the  book  of  life,  which 
"  thou  beared  in  thy  hand,  and  by  which  thou 
<c  hall  been  taught  to  efchew  falfehood,  and  to 
«  feek  out  truth." 

Then  Good-intent  bowed  himfelf  before  the 
damfels,  and  rejoiced  that  he  had  at  lad  been 
fo  fortunate  as  to  find  them  ;  efpecially  he  was 
glad  to  behold  her,  concerning  whom  her 
enemies  had  reported  fuch  calumnies ;  even 
Piety,  who  was  the  elded  of  the  fiders,  and 
for  whom  the  other  two,  who  leaned  on  her  on 
either  fide,  feemed  in  every  look  and  gedure 
to  exprefs  their  veneration  and  regard.  Good- 
intent  beheld  With  awe  her  faintly  counte- 
nance ;  while  the  fober  but  not  audere  looks 
of  Prudenc/  engaged  his  confidence,  and  the 
benignant  fmile  and  dove-like  eye  of  Charity, 
filled  his  \yhole  foul  with  peace,  joy,  and  holy 
love. 

When  they  had  led  him  into  their  gued- 
chamber,  they  quedioned  him  concerning  his 
pilgrimage  ;  fo  he  told  them  all  that  had  hiiher- 
N 


(     ^34     ) 

to  befallen  him  therein  ;  and  when  he  had  end- 
ed the  account  of  his  Jail  adventure,  "  It  is  well 
"  for  you,"  (aid  Prudence,  "  that  you  have  fo 
"  well  learnt  from  that  book,  where  alone  true 
"  wifdom  is  to  be  found,  to  difregard  fpecious 
"  words,  and  to  rejed  falfe  principles,  viewing 
i*  with  abhorrence  the- unrighteous  deeds  which 
"  fpring  from  them." 

H  There  are  but  too  many,"  faid  Charily, 
"  even  among  thofe  who  are  the  bed  difpofed 
"  to  love  us,  and  to  receive  our  precepts  within 
l<  their  hearts,  who,  milled  by  the  arts  of  the 
"  impoftors  who  afllime  our  characters  even 
u  while  they  affect  to  defpife  our  names,  have 
"  been  filled  by  their  pernicious  counfels  with 
(<  all  unrighteoufnefs;  becoming  haters  of  God, 
<l  defpiteful,  proud,  boafters,  inventors  of  evil 
"  tilings  difobedient  to  parents,  without  under- 
"  (landing,  covenant-breakers,  without  natural 
"  affection,  implacable,  unmerciful;  and  though 
"  out  of  their  own  mouths  they  might  be  con- 
"  demned,  feeing  that  the  words  oT  peace  are 
"  ever  on  their  lips,  yet,  '  even  as  they  did  not 
«  like  to  retain  God  in  their  knowledge/  he  has 
"  given  '  them  over  to  a  reprobate  mind ;'  fo 
"  that  thofe  fame  things,  for  which  they  ac- 
li  count  others  mod  inexcufable,  they  do  then  - 
1*  fclves  commit  without  remorfe." 


(     135     ) 

al  pray  you/'  faid  GGoJ-bitent,  "who  arc 
"  thefe  deceivers  ?  And  how  long  have  they 
tl  dwelt  in  thefe  parts  V* 

"  They  fpring,"  faid  Prudence,  "  from  an 
"  evil  race  ;  and  you  will  not  wonder  at  their 
"  eagernefs  to  fcd uce  pilgrims  from  the  right 
"  road,  when  I  tell  yon  that  they  are  the  daugh- 
"  ters  of  Mr.  Pbllofipby,  with  whom  you  met 
"  in  the  former  part  of  your  journey,  to  the 
"  great  endangering  of  your  fafcty  ;  and  who, 
'•'  being  himfelf  occupied  in  confufmg  the  heads 
"  of  pilgrims,  has  fent  forth  thefe,  a  progeny 
"  worthy  of  fuch  a  father,  to  feduce  their  hearts. 
"  When  they  firft  came  into  this  country,  they 
"  offered  themfelves  to  us  with  great  fecming 
"  humility,  as  our  fervants  ;  and  we,  being 
"  pleafed  with  their  appearance  and  fair 
"  fpeeches,  were  contented  to  receive  them  as 
"  fuch  ;  and  for  a  while  they  behaved  them- 
"  felves  to  our  liking  ;  but  it  was  not  long  be- 
"  fore  they  began  to  fliew  themfelves  in  their 
"  proper,  colours.  For  my  filler  Charity,  in- 
"  deed,  they  conftantly  expreffed  extraordinary 
"  refpecl ;  prailing  her  upon  all  occafions,  and 
"  even  feeking  to  exalt  her  by  difparaging  all 
i(  her  nearell  kindred  ;  yet  even  to  her  they 
"  paid  no  obedience  ;  and  frequently  me  found 
"  that  they  had  bufied  themfelves  in  demolifh- 
u  ing  the  works  which  ilie  had  ordered  them  to 


"  aflift  in  completing.  As  for  me,  they  came 
"  little  in  my  way,  being  defirous,  if  it  were 
"  poffible,  wholly  to  efcape  my  obfervation  ;  but 
"  to  my  lifter  Piety  they  daily  offered  the  mod 
u  unprovoked  and  ofFenfive  infults.  I  believe, 
"  indeed,  that  their  plan  was  to  incite  her  to 
"  quit  us,  as  they  have  fince  thought  proper  to 
H  affert  fhe  has  done  ;  for  they  even  then  had 
"  the  afllirance  to  raife  calumnies  againft  her, 
"  and  ufed  their  ntmoft  endeavours  to  excite 
"  fome  diffenfion  betwixt  her  and  Charity  ;  but 
"  a  friend  ftiip  fo  indiifoluble  as  theirs  was  proof 
"  againft  all  fuch  wiles ;  and  the  attempt  was 
u  even  fortunate ;  lince  it  unveiled  the  defigns 
"  of  thefe  impoftors  to  the  eyes  of  Charity,  who 
"  would  not  other  wife  have  been  fo  foon  indu- 

*  ced  to  retracl  her  favourable  opinion  of  them; 
"  and  flie  acquiefced  in  my  counfels,  that  they 
"  fhould  be  expelled  from  among  us.  During 
"  the  time  that  they  had  been  with  us,  how- 
"  ever,  they  had  acquired  a  facility  in  imitating 
"  our  manners,  and  had  learnt  to  repeat  by  rote 
"  many  of  our  fayings ;  and  thus  qualified,  they 
"  formed  the  fcheme  to  perfoliate  us,  that  fo 
"  they  might  inveigle  out  of  the  right  way  fuch 

*  pilgrims  as  came  with  the  defign  to  take  up 
«  their  lodging  with  us.  In  this  enterprife 
"  they  were  chiefly  affifted  by  him  who  accofted 
«  you  in  the  character  of  their  porter,  and  who 


(     137    ) 

€i  is  called  Sentiment.  He  was  the  architect 
"  who  erected  their  houfe,  which,  as  you  might 
"  obferve  is  built  in  imitation  of  ours ;  though 
"  the  difference  of  the  materials  prevents  any 
"  great  refemblance  between  them*  Their  ed- 
"  ifice,  indeed,  being  framed  of  fuch  perifh- 
"  able  fubftance,  would  not  have  flood  till 
"  now,  were  not  its  inhabitants  continually  cm- 
"  ployed  in  repairing  its  walls ;  fo  that  as, 
"  through  time  and  ftrefs  of  weal  Vt,  one  row 
"  of  books  decays  and  moulders  away,  the 
"  place  is  immediately  filled  up  with  a  double 
"  quantity  of  new  ones,  with  which  they  are 
"  continually  fupplied  from  a  manufactory, 
"  which,  under  the  direction  of  their  father, 
"  Mr.  Philofopby,  they  have  eftablifhed  in  the 
"  neighbourhood.  Since  they  have  refided  in 
"  this  their  new  habitation,  their  arts  have  been 
"  but  too  fuccefsful ;  and  efpecially  they  '  lead 
"  captive  many  filly  women,  laden  with  fins,  and 
u  led  away  with  divers  lulls/  who,  though  they 
"  are  ever  imagining  they  learn,  are  yet  e never 
iC  able  to  come  at  the  knowledge  of  the  truth.' 
"  For,  as  Mr.  Pbilofopby's  houfe  is  chiefly  fre- 
"  quented  by  men,  fo  is  this  of  his  daughters 
"  mofl  commonly  vifited  by  women.  Never- 
"  thelefs,  at  both,  guefls  of  either  fex  are 
"  equally  welcome;  and  while  the  male  pupils 
a  of  thefc  deceivers  are  taught,  when  their 


(    i3«    ) 

11  hands  are  embrued  in  murder,  to  affect  in 
"  their  converfation,  the  mod  effeminate  ex- 
"  preflions  of  tendernefs  and  morbid  fenfibility, 
"  their  female  difciples  learn  to  confider  as  the 
u  difgrace  of  womanhood,  what  has  hitherto 
"  been  its  raoft  invaluable  privilege,  even  its 
"  modefty ;  and  calling  off,  with  that,  <  the  or- 
"  nament  of  a  meek  and  quiet  fpirit,'  where- 
"  with,  lr  in  the  old  time,  the  holy  women  who 
"  tr  ufled  in  God  adorned  themfelves/  they 
"  think  that  they  fufficiently  eftablifli  their 
"  claim  to  equality  with  men,  while  they  rival 
"  even  the  mod  reprobate  among  them,  no  lefs 
"  in  ferocity  than  in  voluptuoufnefs." 

"  I  could  not  but  obferve,"  faid  Good-intent, 
u  that  the  language  which  was  held  to  me  in 
"  the  houfe  which  I  have  juft  quitted,  bore  a 
"  flrong  refemblance  to  that  which  I  heard  in 
"  Mr.  Pbih/ophy's  palace." 

"  The  office  which  he  chiefly  entrufts  to 
u  theie  his  daughters,"  refumed  Prudence,  u  is 
11  that  of  reconciling  to  the  moft  atrocious 
<(  deeds  the  minds  of  thofe  who  flill  refpecl  the 
"  name  of  Virtue,  by  amufing  them  with  empty 
"  and  delufive  founds ;  and  as  foon  as  any  man 
"  has  learnt,  after  their  example,  to  call  evil 
"  good;  and  good  evil,  he  is  then  fufficiently 
"  prepared  to  join  Mr.  Philofophy's  great  army, 
"  of  which  you  faw  the  firfl  frantic  troop  ki 


(    *39    ) 

"  out  from  his  palace,  and  take  the  road  which 

*  led  to  the  mountain  of  Revolution.  Had 
"  you,  therefore,  hearkened  to  their  entice- 
"  ments,  they  would  have  led  you  down  into  the 
"  valley,  which  lies  between  that  mountain 
"  and  this  hill  of  Difficulty,  which  was  the  fame 
"  that  they  extolled  to  you  as  fo  far  preferable  to 

*  the  valley  of  Humiliation ;  and  there  would 
H  you  have  found  yourfelf  furrounded  by  the 

*  votaries  of  Atheifin  and  Anarchy,  from  whom 
"  you  had  lately  fled ;  infomuch,  that  unable  a 
"  fecond  time  to  efcape,  you  would  have  been 
"  borne  along  by  the  crowd,  and  even  compel- 

*  led  to  become  fuch  an  one  as  themfelves. 
"  But  our  houfe  {lands  fo  high,  that  from  my 
"  apartment,  we  have  a  view  of  ail  the  country 
"  round  ;  fo  that  you  may,  if  you  pleafe,  look 
"  out,  and  behold  the  progrefs  of  thefe  enemies 
"  of  your  king." 

Then  Good-intent  gladly  followed  her,  and 
fhe  led  him  to  a  window,  from  which  he  had 
a  full  profpecl:  of  the  mountain  of  Revolution, 
with  its  precipitous  fides,  and  its  frowning  brow. 
And  behold  !  Mr.  Pbilofbphy's  troops  had  now 
gained  the  fummit,  and  were  exulting  in  their 
fuccefs  with  fhouts  of  triumph.  The  eyes  of  the 
pilgrim  fought  among  their  ranks  for  his  old 
companions ;  but  he  could  not  difcern  them  all ; 
for  the  Lord  Inconfiderate,  finding  the  tncwia- 


(        '40     ) 

Kiin  deeper  than  he  liked,  had  not  chofen  to 
attempt  theafcent;  but  not  knowing  his  way 
back  to  the  road  he  had  quitted,  he  had  loft 
himfelf,  and  perifhed  miferably  :  the  Lord  Party 
Spirit  had  followed  his  friends  into  a  quagmire ; 
where,  though  they  had  foon  got  out  of  it,  he 
had  {tuck  fad  in  the  deep  mud,  and  had  found 
none  who  would  give  him  any  help  :  Mr.  CurU 
ofity,  venturing  too  near  the  edge  of  a  precipice, 
to  take  a  view  of  the  valley  below,  had  fallen 
over,  and  had  been  darned  to  pieces :  and  Mr. 
Hate-controul  had  been  flain  by  the  hand  of  Mr. 
Hot-head,  who  was  offended  that  he  boafted  of 
having  as  good  a  right  as  himfelf  to  choofe  in 
what  path  he  would  walk.  Many  others  of 
thofe  who  had  fetout  with  them  from  the  palace 
of  Mr.  Pbilofbpby  had  alio  perifhed  by  different 
cafualties ;  and  at  the  head  of  all  who  (till  fur- 
vived,  there  now  marched  the  men  with  the 
fierce  countenances,  who  wore  the  daggers  in 
their  girdles.  Then  Good-intent  inquired  of 
Prudence  who  thofe  men  were  ;  for  from  the 
firft  he  had  felt  a  defire  to  know  fomewhat 
more  particularly  about  them." 

"Thofe,  faid  fhe,  "are  not,  like  the  reft, 
"  the  difciples  or  the  vaffals  of  Mr.  Philo- 
"fopby.  They  are  a  band  of  Blood-men  ;  the 
61  countrymen  of  thofe  who  in  former  times  com- 
"  pofed  the  chief  ftrength  of  the  army  of  IX; 


(     Mi     ) 

"  bolus,  in  his  wars  again  ft  king  Shaddau  Re- 
"  membering  the  prowefs  which  they  then 
"  difpiayed  in  battle,  Mr.  Pbilofophy  has  form- 
"  ed  an  alliance  with  their  nation ;  but  they 
"  concern  not  themfelves,  like  the  reft  of  thofe ' 
"  men  whom  you  faw  in  his  palace,  with  his 
"  opinions,  neither  are  their  minds  perverted 
"  by  his  fophiftical  arguments:  to  them  it  were 
"  unnecefTary  to  clothe  evil  in  the  garb  of 
*  goodnefs ;  for  they  love  and  defire  evil  for 
"  its  own  fake  ;  and  it  is  becaufe  they  have  dif- 
H  covered  in  Mr.  Pbilofophy  the  irreconcileable 
"  enemy  of  juftice  and  of  holinefs,  that  they 
"  have  fo  readily  joined  his  forces,  and  are  con- 
"  tent  to  march  under  his  banners.  It  is  true 
"  that  at  flrft,  leu  their  appearance  on  his  fide 
"  fliould  too  much  counteract  the  arts  with 
"  which  he  fought  to  hide  his  purpofes  from 
u  the  world,  they  hid  their  faces,  and  lufFered 
"  others  of  his  followers  to  imagine  themfelves 
«  the  leaders  of  his  army  ;  but  now  that  they 
f  have  reached  the  fummit  of  this  mountain, 
"  they  no  longer  think  diflimulation  necefTary, 
"  but  openly  avow  themfelves,  and  terrify  into 
u  fubjeclion  even  thofe,  who,  at  the  beginning, 
"  would  have  been  the  lead  difpofed  to  form 
"  any  league  of  amity  with  them.  The  name 
"  of  him  who  marches  at  the  head  of  this  ter- 
"  ribfe  band  is  Jacobinifm,  and  in  him  is  veiled 


(      *4*     ) 

u  the  fupreme  command ;  thofe  whom  he  has 
"  appointed  to  be  his  principal  captains  are 
"  Rapine ,  Perfidy,  Extortion,  Opprejfion,  Trea- 
"fon,  Sacrilege,  and  Murder.  Henceforward, 
"  though,  when  it  may'fuit  their  purpofes,  they 
"  will  continue  to  ufe  the  name  of  Mr.  Phi* 
"  lofopby,  you  will  perceive  that  they  will  fub- 
"  mit  to  no  control,  even  from  his  authority ; 
"  and  that  they  will  continue  in  alliance  with 
"  him  from  no  other  motive,  than  that  all 
"  the  mod  atrocious  of  their  deeds  may 
u  find  in  him  a  mod  unwearied  panegyrill 
"  and  advocate.— But  the  whole  company  is 
"  now  about  to  defcend  into  the  valley,  whi- 
u  ther  your  late  hoftelTes  would  have  conducted 
"  you.  It  is  called  the  valley  o;  Ejitdity.  Ob- 
t(  ferve  how  fteep  and  dangerous  is  the  path 
"  which  leads  down  to  it  from  the  mountain  of 
u  Revolution ;  infomuch  that  thofe  who  at- 
(t  tempt  the  defcent  are  obliged  to  throw  away 
"  all  the  baggage  they  have  hitherto  carried 
"  with  them,  nay,  even  to  drip  off  the  bell 
"  part  of  their  clothes,  left,  being  laden  with 
"  any  weight  or  incumbrance,  they  mould  be 
"  the  more  liable  to  fall." 

Then  Good-intent  beheld  all  thofe  who  had 
money,  or  any  other  kind  of  provilion  for 
their  future  wants  on  their  journey,  throw  it 
from  them  j  fome  were  conftrained  to  lay  afide 


(     143     ) 

their  gorgeous  robes;  the  Lord  Love-change 
call  away  his  coronet,  and  the  like  did  many 
others ;  nay,  fome  who  wore  crowns,  though 
themielves  unwilling  to  reilgn  them,  could  not 
prevent  others  of  the  company  in  which  they 
had  travelled  fo  far  from  taking  them  off  their 
heads,  and  throwing  them  down  the  precipice. 
Thus  lightened,  they  all  began  to  defcend ; 
but  Mr.  Hot-bead,  going  too  haftily,  foon  fell, 
and  broke  his  neck :  many  of  the  red  alio  either 
flipped,  or  were  pufhed  down  by  others  ;  and  I 
faw  not  that  any  of  thofe  who  fell  ever  rofe  up 
again.  When  they  had  reached  the  foot  of  the 
mountain,  the  Lord  Love-change  was  fuddenly 
(wallowed  up  in  the  fwamp  o^Falfi  accufation, 
into  which  he  was  led  by  Perfidy,  at  the  miti- 
gation of  Rapine;  and  I  obferved  that  all  who 
had  worn  coronets  or  coftly  robes,  met  with  a 
fate  iimilar  to  his.  As  for  Mr.  Credulity,  and 
fome  others  wh-  walked  with  him,  a  phantom 
called  Fraternity  met  them  at  the  entrance  of 
the  valley,  and,  making  a  femblance  to  em- 
brace them,  ftifled  them  in  his  arms.  Of  thofc 
who  had  once  been  the  companions  of  Good- 
intent,  Mr.  Difcontent  therefore  now  only  fur- 
vived:  he  (till  followed  Jacobinifm  and  his 
troop  with  a  fullen  pace  ;  and,  as  I  afterwards 
learned,  he  continued  to  follow  them  through 
every  different  region  into  which  they  entered 


(     144     ) 

even  to  the  end  of  their  appointed  courfe ;  nor, 
though  they  would  often  gladly  have  been  rid 
of  fuch  an  aflbciate,  could  they  ever  find  means 
to  perfuade  him  to  turn  back,  or  to  drive  him 
from  their  company. 

The  miferable  end  of  fo  many  of  the  ori- 
ginal followers  of  Mr.  Philofophy  feemed  to 
afford  to  the  Blood-men  a  caufe  for  rejoicing. 
They  employed  themfelves  with  eagernefs  in 
gathering  up  the  precious  things,  which,  hav- 
ing been  cad  away  at  the  top  of  the  mountain, 
had  rolled  down  irs  fides  into  the  valley ;  and 
while  they  were  thus  occupied,  many  quarrels 
arofe  among  them  for  the  treafures  they  had 
found:  fo  they  drove  with  each  other,  and 
many  who  had  collected  the  riched  fpoils  were 
(lain  by  their  fellows,  envious  of  their  good  for- 
tune. But  at  lad  their  contention  ceafed  for 
a  time,  and  they  all  went  forwards  together, 
and  foon  were  out  of  fight. 

Then  Good-intent,  addreffing  himfelf  again 
to  Prudence,  "  At  lead  there  is  hope,"  faid  he, 
"  that  the  evils  which  have  been  brought  upon 
<e  the  earth  by  this  band  of  ruffians  will  not  be 
"  of  long  continuance  ;  for  if  they  thus  maiiy 
"  rum  on  every  danger,  and  are  befides  fo  ill 
"  difpofed  towards  each  other,  that  on  the 
"  (lighted  grounds  they  filed  the  blood  of  their 
"  fellows,  their  force  mud  quickly  perifh,  and 


(     M5     ) 

f  the  very  memorial  of  them  be  fwept  away 
u  from  the  earth." 

"  I  am  not  furprifed,"  faid  Prudence,"  that 
"  you  entertain  fuch  a  hope  ;  but  you  do  not 
"  confider  the  continual  reinforcements  which 
"  this  army  received.     Mr.  Pbilofopby  is  ever 
"  at  work  ill  enticing  unwary  travellers  to  en- 
"  lift  under  his  ftandard  ;   the  nation  of  the 
"  Blood-men   is,    moreover,    very   numerous ; 
"  and  large  companies  are  even  now  on  their 
"  road,    from    all  parts   of   it,    to  join    their 
"Countrymen;    and  befides  all  this,  in  every 
"  land  through  which   the  army  panes,  they 
«  oblige  the  natives  thereof  to  take  up  arms 
"  and   follow  them ;   alluring  fome  with  the 
"  profpeel  of  fltaring  in  the  plunder  of  their 
"  neighbours ;    and,   by  {tripes  and   ill-ufage, 
"  compelling  thofe  who  cannot  be  fo  perfuaded, 
"to.forfake  their  homes,  and  affift,  however 
"  unwillingly,  in  fpreading  defolation  over  the 
"  whole  habitable  furface  of  the  globe.    When 
"  you  reacruhe  town  of  Vanity,  you  will  again 
"  fall  in  with  them  5  but  in  the  mean  while, 
"  you  fli all  for  a  time  take  up  your  abode  with 
"  us,  as  it  has  been  the  cuftom  of  your  family 
"  to  do,  whenever  any  of  them  have   paffed 
«  this  way.     Our  inflructions  (hall  fortify  your 
"  mind  againft  the  deceits  of  future  impoftors ; 
"  and,  at  your  departure,  we  will  arm  you  in 
O 


(      14$     ) 

"  the  armour  of  light,  wherewith  your  ancef- 
"  tor  Cbriftiati  was  clad,  that  fo  you  may  be 
"  enabled  to  withftand  all  fuch  affailants  as  fhall 
"  hereafter  feek  to  moleft  you,  during  the.  re- 
"  niaining  part  of  your  pilgrimage." 

So  I  faw  in  my  dream  that  GoocUIntent  was 
well-pleafed  with  the  propofal,  and  that  he 
continued  many  days  at  the  houfe  Beautiful; 
where  he  became  too  well  acquainted  with  the 
true  character  and  excellency  of  the  CbrijUan 
Virtues }  to  be  in  any  danger  of  again  fufier- 
ing  himfelf  to  be  impofed  on  by  their  counter- 
feits. 

Moreover  they  took  great  pains  in  inftrucling 
him;  and  Piety  taught  him'to  love  the  Lord 
his  God  with  all  his  heart,  with  all  his  foul,  and 
with  all  his  mind  ;  to  purify  himfelf  even  as 
He  is  pure  ;  to  do  heartily  whatfoever  he  did, 
as  to  the  Lord,  and  not  unto  men  ;  not  being 
conformed  to  this  world,  but  being  transformed 
by  the  renewing  of  his  mind,  that  he  might 
'prove  what  is  that  good,  and  acoeptable,  and 
perfect  wilt  of  God;  holding  faft  the  niyftery 
of  the  faith  in  a  pure  confeience  ;  and  defiring 
nothing  in  comparifon  of  the  glory  that  fhall  be 
revealed,  when  the  Lord  cometh  with  thou- 
fands  of  his  faints,  to  judge  the  world  in  right- 
eoufnefs. 

When  (lie  had  thus  trained  him  in  the  rlrfr 


(     M7     ) 

and  great  commandment  of  the  law,  Charily 
taught  him  the  fecond,  which  was  like  unto  it  ; 
even  that  he  mould  love  his  neighbour  as  him- 
felf.     But   flie   exhorted  him  not  to  love  in 
word,  neither  in  tongue,  after  the  manner  of 
falfe  pretenders  to  philanthropy  :  but  in  deed, 
and  in  truth  ;  not  faying  to  the  naked  and  the 
hungry,  « Depart  in  peace,  be  you  warmed  and 
u  filled,"  but  giving  them  thofe  things  whereof 
they  ftand  in  need.     And  while  file  perfuaded 
him,  as  he  had  opportunity,  to  do  good  unto 
all  men,  file  taught  him  that  thofe  of  the  hcuf- 
hold  of  faith  were  more  particularly  to  he  con- 
fidered  as  entitled   to  his   beneficence;  feeing 
that  it  is  fitting  that  the  members  of  that  body, 
whereof  Cbrijtis  the  head,  fliould  have  care  one 
for  another.   She  charged  him  alio  to  learn  firfi 
to  fhew  kindnefs  at  home  ;  flnce  if  any  provkle 
not  for  his  own,  and  efpecially  for  thofe  of  his 
own  houfe,  he  hath,  denied  the  faith,  and  is 
worfe  than  an  infidel.     Moreover  flie   taught 
him  that  he  would  exercife  more  true  compaf- 
iion  towards  thofe,  whofe  reprobate  minds  re- 
ceive not  the  knowledge  of  the  truth,  by  con- 
verting  one  fmner  from  the  error  of  his  ways, 
than  by  crying,   "Peace!  peace  !»    to   all   to 
whom  there  was  no  peace  ;  vainly  flriving  with 
the  flrength  of  man,  to  reverfe  the  irrevocable 
judgments  of  God,  which  (land  fixed   as  the 


C  i48  ) 

great  mountains  for  ever,  and  fhall  manifeftly 
appear  to  all  men,  at  the  laft  day,  to  have  been 
founded  in  truth  and  righteoufnefs.  And  to 
ev^ry  work  of  love  me  exhorted  her  difciple,  in 
the  name  of  Him  who  gave  even  his  life  for 
us  miierahle  fmners,  and  who  hath  promifed  to 
reward  the  kindnefles  which  have  been  fhewn 
unto  the  leaffc  of  his  brethren  upon  earth,  as  if 
they  had  been  done  unto  himfclf. 

Now,  that  he  might  be  the  more  readily  dif- 
pofedto  attend  to  the  inftruclions  of  Piety  and 
Charity,  Prudence  taught  him  that  the  fear  of 
the  Lord  is  wifdom,  and  to  depart  from  evil  is 
uncleritanding ;  that  the  precepts  of  the  Lord 
are  right,  rejoicing  the  heart ;  that  the  com- 
mandment of  the  Lord  is  pure,  enlightening 
the  eyes ;  that  thofe  who  keep  his  precepts  have 
more  underftanding  than  the  ancients,  and  en- 
fure  to  tbemfclves  a  glorious  inheritance,  eter- 
nal in  the  heavens.  She  exhorted  him,  there- 
fore, that  avoiding  all  oppofitiohs  of  fcience, 
falfely  fo  called,  with  that  worldly  wifdom, 
which  is  earthly,  fenfual,  devilifli,  where  envy- 
ing and  flrife  is,  with  confufion  and  every  evil 
work,  he  mould  feek  the  wifdom  that  is  from 
above  ;  which  is  firft  pure,  then  peaceable,  gen- 
tle, full  of  mercy  and  good  fruits;  which  com- 
eth  down  from  the  Father  of  Lights,  and  there- 
fore, like  Himfelf,  hath  no  variablenefs ; 


(     149     ) 

which  if  any  man  afk  in  faith  of  God,  it  (hall 
be  given  him. 

Now  I  faw  in  my  dream,  that  Good-intent 
received  with  joy  the  words  of  thefe  three  wife 
virgins,  and  was  not  a  forgetful  hearer  of  thofe 
doclrines  of  his  Lord,  which  they  thus  declared 
unto  him,  but  ftrove  daily  to  become  more 
zealouily  a  doer  of  the  fame.  So  when  the 
time  drew  near  that  he  fhould  proceed  further 
on  his  journey,  they  led  him  into  the  armoury 
of  their  king,  whereof  they  are  entruded  with 
the  charge,  and  there  they  clad  him  in  armour 
of  proof,  fuch  as  had  been  given  to  Cbvijilan,  his 
anceftor,  and  to  all  others  of  his  family  in  fuc- 
ceeding  generations,  who  had  arrived  at  that 
houfe  in  the  courfe  of  their  pilgrimage.  More- 
over they  fhewed  him  all  their  records,  and 
other  rare  and  profitable  things  which  it  was 
their  cuftom  to  fh.ew  unto  pilgrims ;  and  when 
they  had  done  this,  they  had  further  the  kind- 
nefs  to  walk  forward  with  him  a  little  way  on 
his  journey;  left,  while  his  mind  was  occupied 
with  the  exceeding  great  value  of  his  late  ac- 
quirements, he  fhould  take  the  road  which  led 
to  the  tower  of  Spiritual-pride,  in  (lead  of  that 
which  defcended  into  the  valley  of ' HumilLitiov., 
through  which  lay  the  only  way  to  the  Cwleftirf 
City. 

So  I  faw  that;  being  heedful  to  his  fteps,  as 
Qz 


(     150     ) 

they  admoniflied  bin?  to  be,  he  went  down  the 
hill  without  making  any  flip,  which  might  have 
given  the  foul  fiend  ApoUyon  an'ad  vantage  over 
him ;  and  as  he  went  along,  in  talk  with  his 
companions,  they  warned  him  to  be  contin- 
ually careful  left  he  fhould  be  again  deceived 
by  any  of  thofe  who  afllimed  their  name  or 
likenefs,  for  the  purpofe  of  leading  pilgrims 
aftray.  "  For,"  faid  they,  "  there  are  many  6th- 
"  er  impoftors  befides  thofe  yon  have  already 
u  feen,  who  have  recourfe  to  that  artifice,  and 
"  thereby  miflead  the  moft  zealous  of  our  pupils." 
"  I  flatter  my felf,"  faid  Good-intent,  "that  I 
"  have  now  lived  too  long  in  your  houfe,  and 
'•'  have  acquainted  myfelf  too  perfectly  with 
"  your  features,  to  be  henceforward  liable  to 

*  any  impofitions  of  that  nature." 

"  Be  not  too  confident,"  faid  Prudence; 
u  for,  '  if  Satan  himfelf  be  fometimes  tranf- 
"  formed  into  an  angel  of  light/  it  is  therefore 
"  no  great  thing  if  his  minifters  be  alfo  tranf- 
"  formed  as  the  minifters  of  righteoufnefs." 

"  But  can  you  not  give  me  fome  certain 
"  rule,"  faid  he,  "  whereby  I  may  be  enabled 
"  to  detect  fuch  deceivers?" 

u  There  is  no  rule,"  faid  Prudence,  "  by 
"  which  we  may  at  all  times  be  more  certainly 
"  diftingui died  from  thofe  who  would  pafs  for 

*  us;  than  by  the  harmony  which  conftantly 


(     QM     ) 

"  and  indiflblubly  fubfifts  between  us.  Each 
"  of  us  has  feparately  many  counterfeits ;  but 
"  while  we'  uniformly  agree  together  in  one 
"  mind,  thofe  counterfeits  are  ever  at  variance 
"  with  each  other.  Thus,  for  example,  my 
f\  name  and  office  are  fometimes  aflumed  by 
<(  Avarice,  and  fometimes  by  Simulation  ;  but 
"  Avarice  betrays  herfelf  by  the  hatred  which 
"  fhe  cannot  conceal  againft  my  fitter  Charity, 
"  from  whom  fhe  flies,  as  from  a  robber 
a  who  would  fpoil  her  of  her  goods:  while 
"  Simulation  may  be  known  by  her  refufal  to 
"  liften  to  the  voice  of  Piety,  who  vainly 
*  attempts  to  recal  her  from  the  crooked  paths 
u  in  which  fhe  leads  her  followers  to  their 
«  deftrutfion." 

"  You  may  alfo  find  me  perfonated  in  the 
"  world  p  faid  Charity,  "  by  two  no  lefs 
"  dangerous  deceivers.  OJtentatjon  and  Pro-1 
"  fttfion  both  defue  to  be  taken  for  me ;  but 
"  Profufion  openly  expreffes  her  contempt 
"  of  Prudence  ;  and  Oftentation,  delirous  only 
"  to  be  feen  by  men,  has  no  fellowfhip  with 
"  Piety,  who  would  teach  her  to  approve  her- 
"  felf  to  God" 

li  And  in  like  manner,''  faid  Piety,  «  is  my 
"  character  often  ufurped  by  Hypocrify,  who 
"  can  imitate  my  voice,  and  the  fafhion  of  iny 
"  garments ;    but   urge  her   to  prove  by  any 


<l  a&ion  her  kindred  with  Charity,  and  (he 
"  will  ftand  felf-dete&ed  before  you  ;  whilft  if 
u  you  meet  Fanaticifm  alfuming  my  likenefs, 
"  and  addrefs  her  in  the  name  of  Prudence, 
11  (he  will  arrogantly  profefs  unto  you  that 
"  flie  never  knew  her.  Remember,  therefore, 
"  that  we  always  are  confident  with  ourfelves, 
"  with  each  other,  and  with  the  immutable 
"  law  of  our  king ;  and  that,  wherefoever 
<l  you  find  inconfiltency,  you  have  good  reafon 
<(  to  conclude   that  no   Chiftian-virtue  truly 

«  dwells." 

So, after  fome  more  profitable difcourfe,  I  faw 
in  my  dream  that  Prudence,  Piety,  and  Cha- 
rity, thought  it  time  to  return  to  their  own 
^dwelling ;  fo  they  bade  the  pilgrim  farewell, 
and  he  went  forwards  on  his  way,  through  the 
midft  of  the  valley  of  Humiliation,  in  which, 
as  I  judged  from  his  countenance,  he  took  great 
delight.  And  I  obferved  that  it  bore  no  refem- 
blance  to  the  valley  of  Equality,  though  it 
feemed  to  be  on  the  fame  level ;  for  the  valley 
■of  Equality  was  full  of  dangerous  pit-falls,  was 
vifited  by  continual  flprms,  and  was  flrewed 
with  the  bones  of  thofewhoin  former  ages  had 
perifhed  therein  ;  whereas  this  of  Humiliation 
was  fafe  and  pleafant  to  all  pilgrims,  who 
knew  rightly  how  to  defcend  the  hill  which  led 
to  it;  and  the  fweet  airs  of  heaven  did  perpetu- 


(    i53    ) 

ally  vifit  it,  and  refrefh  with  their  kind  influ- 
ence the  fpirits  of  thole  who  were  pairing 
through  it. 

Only  I  faw  that  when  Good-intent  had  reach- 
ed the  lowed  part  of  it,  he  was  fomewhat 
troubled  by  fuddenly  hearing  on  each  fide  voi- 
ces, which  pronounced  his  name,  and  derided 
his  labours ;  fo  he  looked  to  fee  who  were  the 
mockers,  of  whofe  vain  mirth  he  was  thus  the 
fnbjecl;  and  behold!  on  the  right  hand,  on  a  ri- 
fing  ground,  which  overlooked  his  path,  he  de- 
fcried  fomeof  thofe  who  had  followed  the  train 
of  the  Lady  Fafnion,  and  among  them  his  for- 
mer companion,  Light-mini,  with  Laughter 
and  Folly;  and  on  the  left  hand,  onafimilar 
height,  fome  of  Mr.  P  hilofophy' s  troop,  among 
whom  he  diftinguiined  his  ancient  enemy, 
Ridicule  by  name ;  and  thefe  two  parties, 
though  on  other  points  they  agreed  not,  yet 
happening  at  the  fame  time,  from  their  re- 
fpeclive  paths,  to  obtain  alight  of  the  pilgrim, 
and  being  equally  offended  that  he  had  refufed 
to  quit  his  road  for  theirs,  they  vied  with  each 
other  in  thus  laughing  him  to  fcorn.  For  a  few 
moments,  Good-intent  was  vexed  at  their  idle 
feoffs  ;  but  foon  recollecYmg  that  they  might 
more  juftly  be  the  pbj'-cl:  of  his  compaffion,  than 
he  of  their  raillery,  he  walked  on  his  way  with- 


c  m  ) 

cut  regarding  them,  and  was  foon  out  of  their 
light. 

But  by  degrees  his  road  became  more  gloomy, 
as  he  drew  near  to  that  horrible  valley,  the  val- 
ley of  the  Shadow  of  Death.  When  he  firft 
defcried,  though  yet  at  a  diflance,  the  fmoke  of 
the  pit,  his  heart  funk  within  him :  and  when 
he  became  able  to  diftinguiih  the  groans  and 
fearful  cries  of  thofe  who  dwelt  therein,  he 
trembled  exceedingly,  and  was  ready  to  turn 
back  through  fear;  but  remembering  that  he 
mufl  necefiarily  pafs  through  that  valley,  be- 
fore he  could  hope  to  arrive  at  the  CcekJHalCily, 
his  courage  revived,  and  he  felt  himfelf  able 
to  encounter  every  terror,  through  Him  who 
ftrengtheneth  his  fainting  fervants. 

So  he  quickened  his  pace,  and  foon  entering 
the  valley,  he  proceeded  along  the  narrow  path, 
on  the  one  fide  of  which  the  ditch  lieth,  and  on 
the  other  the  quagmire.  And  now  I  beheld  that 
his  ftrength  was  brought  very  low,  and  that  the 
dragons  of  the  deep,  exulting  in  his  weaknefs, 
ruftied  forth  upon  him,  and  fought  by  violence 
to  prevail  againft  him  ;  but  he  covered  himfelf 
with  the  mield  of  Faith,  which  had  been  given 
unto  him  out  of  the  armoury  of  his  King,  and  did 
alfo  for  a  while  make  a  manful  ufeofhis  fword, 
the  edge  of  which  they  durft  not  encounter.  Bur 


(     iSS    ) 

in  a  fliprt  time,  the -noifome  air  which  furround- 
ed  him,  and  of  which  it  is  the  ordinary  nature 
to  mingle  itfeif  with  every  latent  poifon  which 
lurks  in  the  blood  of  thofe  who  breathe  it,  had 
fo  pernicious  an  efftcl  on  him,  that  it  cauftd 
the  (lings  of  thofe  venomous  creatures,  which 
had  fattened  on  him  in  the  palace  of  Mr.  Phi* 
lofopby,  to  enflame  afrefn  ;  and  though  he  had 
fuppofed  them  long  fince  healed,  yet  he  now 
felt  them  more  painful  than  even  at  the  moment 
when  he  had  fir  ft  received  them.    A  mid  foon 
fpread  itfeif  before  his  eyes,  fo  that  he  could  not 
difcern  the  way  before  him  ;  and  by  degrees 
his  arm  fwelled  and  loft  its  flrength;  infomuch 
that,  unable  to  fupport  the  weight  of  his  fhield, 
he  could  no  longer  cover  himfelf  with  it,  but, 
was  obliged  to  drag  it  behind  him,  as  an  ufe- 
lefs  burden,  upon  the  ground.      The  fiends, 
who  before  had  retreated,  when  they  fpied  their 
advantage,  clofed  with  him  ;  and,  while  fome 
grafped  his  fhield,  expecting  to  be  able  quickly 
to  wrench  it  from  him,  others  from  behind,  the 
more  to  diftracl:  him,  did  whifper  in  his  ear  all 
the  blafphemies  which  he  had  formerly  heard 
uttered  by  Mr.  Philofophy  and  his  retainers. 

But  while  I  was  looking  every  moment  for 
his  overthrow,  behold  !  he  fuddenly  recollect- 
ed how,  when  his  forefather  Cbrijilan  had  had 
the  fame  enemies  to  contend  withal,  and  had 


(     >5<5    ) 

been  even  fo  far  reduced  as  to  miitake  their 
whifperings  for  the  evil  imaginations  of  his 
own  heart,  he  had  had  reconrfe  to  another  wea 
pon  called  All-prayer,  and  had  been  delivered. 
Then  Good-intent  immediately  availed  himfelf 
of  that  example;  and  as  he  cried  with  great 
fervency  unto  Him,  to  whom  the  prince  of  the 
power  of  the  air,  with  all  his  hoft  of  evil  ones, 
is  fubjecl:,  his  adverfaries  were  compelled  to 
give  back;  and' from  a  bright  cloud  which 
patted  over,  his  head,  a  few  drops  of  cryftal 
dew  were  fprinkled  on  him,  which,  partaking 
of  the  nature  of  the  waters  of  the  well  of 
Truth,  did  forthwith  remove  the  intolerable 
anguifh  of  the  (tings,  and  reftore  to  his  arm 
its  former  ftrength  ;  fo  that  he  became  able, 
as  at  the  -firft,  to  raife  the  fhield  of  Faith.  Se- 
cure beneath  its  ample  orb,  he  walked  on- 
wards rejoicing  ;  and  even  the  fmoke  and 
flench  of  the  pit  had  no  longer  power  to  an- 
noy him,  neither  did  any  of  the  dragons  and 
hobgoblins  thereof  dare  any  more  to  approach 
him.  And  I  faw  that  he  went  on  with  equal 
fafety  through  that  other  £art  of  the  valley, 
which  is  full  of  fnares  and  pit-falls ;  remem- 
bering the  counfels  of  Prudence,  who  had 
inftruded  him  that  he  who  walketh  uprightly 
walketh  furely. 

So  at  laft  he  came  to  the  cave,  in  which 
the  two  giants  Pagan  and  Pope  had  formerly 


(     157     ) 

dwelt,  to  the  great  moleftation  of  the  pilgrims 
who  travelled  that  way  ;  but  when  Cbriftian 
had  paifed  by,  he  had  found  Pagan-dead,  and 
Pope  decrepid  with  age.  Good-intent,  re- 
membering this,  had  not  expected  to  find  there 
any  enemy,  who  mould  have  power  to  offer 
him  offence  ;  but  behold !  he  now  defcried  in 
the  mouth  of  the  cave  a  third  giant,  more  hor- 
rible than  the  '  former  two,  who  was  called 
Infidel ;  and,  juft  as  the  pilgrim  came  up,  this 
mifcreant  had  thrown  a  dart  at  the  old  and  feeble 
Pope,  who,  unable  to  defend  himfelf  againft  his 
young  and  vigorous  foe,  had  fallen  down,  to  all 
appearance  flain;  yet,  as  Good-intent  drew 
nearer,  he  could  difcern  that  there  were  dill  in 
him  fome  faint  figns  of  life  ;  infomuch  that  it 
appeared  uncertain  whether  the  wound  were 
mortal. 

Infidel,  however,  proud  of  his  eafy  victory, 
turned  to  the  remains  of  Pagan,  whofe  carcafe 
now,  through  length  of  time,  was  reduced  alto- 
gether to  a  ikeleton.  Neverthelefs,  the  grim 
giant  raifed  it  from  the  ground,  and  employed 
one  named  Allegory  to  cart  around  it  an  em- 
broidered veil,  that  fo  its  ghafllinefs  and  defor- 
mity might  be  concealed ;  and  this  he  did,  with 
the  intent  to  call  that  flefhlefs  and  fpiritlefs  body 
by  the  name  of  MythologicaUjjffdom,  and  to 
force  all  fuch  as  became  his  captives  in  battle 


(     '5«    ) 

to  fall  clown  and  worfhip  it.  Now  the  embroi- 
dered veil  had  been  woven  by  the  pupils  of 
Mr.  Pbilofophy. 

The  ground  before  the  mouth  of  thexave  was 
already  ftrewn  with  the  dead  bodies  of  the  pil- 
grims, whom  this  third  and  mod  cruel  giant  had 
flain,  becaufe  of  their  adherence  to  the  way  in 
which  their  fathers  had  walked  ;  and  when 
he  faw  Good-intent  pafling  by,  he  feized  his 
darts,  dipped  in  deadly  poifon,  and  caft  one  of 
them  at  him;  but  the  youth  feared  him  not,  be- 
caufe he  knew  himfelf  to  be  clad  in  armour  of 
proof :  fo  he  covered  himfelf  with  his  fliiek], 
and  the  dart  fell  harmlefson  the  ground. 

Then  Infidel  raged,  and  fpake  many  words 
of  reproach  and  blafphemy ;  and  hTuing  forth 
from  his  cave,  he  ruflied  upon  the  pilgrim, 
with  his  mace  of  Violence,  weening  afTuredly 
to  have  (lain  him  outright ;  but  behold !  a  fudden 
and  mighty  whirlwind  arofe,  before  the  force  of 
which  the  giant  was  fcarcely  able  to  fland;  and 
while  he  reached  forth  his  hands  to  catch  at  any 
thing  which  might  fave  him  from  falling,  his 
weapon,  which  he  no  longer  firmly  grafped,  was 
caught  by  the  tempeft,  and  blown  away  quite 
out  of  his  light.  So  he  flood  for  a  moment  dif- 
mayed ;  and  when  his  pride  returned  to  him, 
and  he  would  have  fought  other  weapons  fpr  the 
ailault,he  perceived  that  the  pilgrim  had  already 


<     *59    ) 

paffcd  too  far  on  his  way  to  be  overtaken  by 
him.  Then  he  returned  to  his  cave,  dilap- 
pointed  of  his  prey  ;  and  Good-intent  pro* 
ceeded  on  his  journey,  full  of  thankfulnefs  for 
the  fignal deliverance  which  had  been  afforded 
him. 

So  I  beheld  that  he  went  on,  till  he  came 
to  a  hill,  from  which  he  had  a  view  of  the 
town  of  Vanity,  and  perceived  that  he  drew 
very  nigh  unto  it.  Now  while  he  flood  flill 
for  a  moment,  to  look  about  him,  he  was  ac- 
coiled  by  a  very  fair-fpoken  gentleman,  who 
made  him  many  profefiions  of  extraordinary 
kindnefs.  "  And  fince,"  faid  the  ftranger, 
"  you,  fir,  appear  to  be  travelling,  as  well  as 
"  myfelf,  to  the  town  which  lies  yonder  be- 
"  fore  us,  we  will,  if  you  pleafe,  walk  for- 
"  ward  together." 

"  I  thank  you  for  your  offer  Sir,"  faid  Good- 
intent  ;  "  are  you,  I  pray,  a  native  of  the 
"  town  towards  which  we  are  going  ?" 

"  You  mnft  pardon  me,  Sir,"  returned  his 
new  companion,  "  if  I  queftion  the  propriety 
"  and  the  reafonablenefs  of  your  inquiry.  It 
"  ought  to  be  enough  for  us  to  know  that  we 
"  are  inhabitants  of  the  fanre  planet;  for  fince 
"the  divifions  of  empires,  and  the  boundaries  of 
"  provinces  are  arbitrarily  impofed,  and  conti- 
"  nually  fubjecl:  to  be  changed  by  the  ever- vary- 


(       160     ) 

"  ing  caprice  of  man,  of  what  avail  can  it  be  to 
"  any  individual  to  afk  in  what  village,  or  even 
(i  in  what  hemifpherc,  himfelf  or  his  fellow 
"  firft  chanced  to  draw  breath  ?  Are  we  not  all 
"  equally  citizens  of  that  great  city  the  world  ?" 
°  You  addrefs  me,  Sir,"  faid  Good-intent, 
"  with  the  air  of  one  who  imagines  he 
"  communicates  an  important  difcovery,  firft 
*  made  by  his  own  fuperior  wifdom.  Yet  the 
"  very  doubt  which  you  exprefs  of  the  reafon- 
u  ablenefs  of  my  queftion  affords  me  a  fufficient 
"  proof  that  you  have  never  yourfelf  confidered 
"  how  much  it  may  imply.  By  inquiring  of 
u  what  country  you  were  a  native,  I  meant  not 
"  to  afk  for  geographical  definitions ;  but  I  ex- 
"  peeled  to  learn  by  your  anfwer  whether  you 
"  belonged  to  a  civilized  or  a  barbarous  com- 
"  munity  ;  whether  I  might  hope  to  find  your 
<l  opinions,  religious  ar.d  political,  agreeing 
"  with  thofc  in  which  I  myfelf  was  educated  : 
"  and  though,  had  I  found  you  a  native  of 
"  realms  the  moft  remote  from  mine,  I  mould 
u  flill  have  felt  myfelf  bounden  to  you  by  that 
"  tie  of  univerfal  love,  which  our  great  mafter 
"  is  willing  fhould  fubfift  between  all  his  crea- 
"  tures;  yet  I  fliould  withpleafure  have  avowed 
"  a  nearer  connexion  with  you,  had  you  de- 
"  clared  yourfelf  a  member  of  fome  nation  unit- 
"  ed  with  my  own,  by  any  obligations  of  an- 


(     161    ) 

a  cient  amity,  or  any  now-exifting  league  of 
<i  mutual  advantage  ;  and  had  I  discovered  in 
f  you  a  fellow-countryman,  I  mould  frill  more 
"  gladly  have  greeted  you,  and  mould  have 
"  rejoiced  to  have  had  for  my  companion,  in 
"  this  my  pilgrimage  to  the  regions  of  eternity, 
"  one  who  had  a  common  intereft  with  my- 
"  felf  in  every  thing  which  in  the  prefent 
"  world  I  hold  mod  dear." 

Then  the  ftranger,  whofe  name  was  Mr. 
Cofmopolitan,  mocked  at  the  words  of  Good-in- 
tent, and  ufed  many  arguments  to  convince 
him  of  his  folly  in  preferring  his  own  country 
to  the  other  regions  of  the  world  ;  feeing  that 
it  was  formed  but  of  earth  and  water,  as  they 
were,  and  was  inferior  to  many  among  them 
in  pleafantnefs  and  fertility.  « 

"  Were  it   even  lefs  pleafant  and  lefs  fertile 

*  than  you  reprefent  it,"  faid  Good-intent, 
"  I  am  willing  to  hope  that  my  attachment  to 
"  it  would  not  be  on  that  account  the  weaker. 

*  Wherefore  do  not  all  men  covet  alike  to 
"  dwell  in  thofefew  and  narrow  diftriels  of  our 
"  world,  where  the  feafons  are  mod  tempe- 
"  rate,  and  where  the  choicer!:  of  the  fruits  of 
"  the  earth  rife  fpontaneoufly  to  perfection?  And 

*  wherefore,  from  this  caufe,  does  not  univer- 
"  fal  warfare  continually   fublift  among  us  ? 

*  Wherefore,  but  becaufe  Providence  has  gra- 


(  I**  ) 

"  cioufly  implanted  in  the  breaft  of  every  indi- 
"  vidua],  not  corrupted  by  vain  fophiftry,  that 
"  attachment  to  the  foil  which  gave  him  birth, 
"  which  renders  him  contented  with  the  lot 
"  which  has  fallen  to  him,  and  induces  him  to 
"  confider  even  the  barren  rock  as  a  goodly 
"  heritage,  if  he  can  dwell  thereon  with  thofe 
"  of  his  own  kindred,  and  of  his  father's  houfe." 

"  By  what  I  perceive,"  faid  Mr.  Cofenopo- 
Htan,  "you  prefer  the  direction  of  inftincl; 
"  to  that  of  reafon.  You  will  not,  however,  I 
"  hope,  be  fo  misjudging  as  to  refufe,  for  the 
"  fake  of  a  few  old-fafhioned  prejudices,  to 
"  feek  in  the  town  of  Vanity,  whither  we  are 
"  going,  for  the  mod  agreeable  lodgings ; 
"  and  in  this  quell  you  cannot  do  better  than  to 
"  take  me  for  your  guide  ;  for  I  have  friends 
u  in  every  flreet  of  the  fair  ;  and  while  I  wan- 
"  der,  without  any  illiberal  preference,  from 
**  one  to  the  other,  I  am  fure  to  find  myfelf 
"  equally  welcome  to  all." 

"  You  make  me  fair  promifes,  Sir,"  faid 
Good-intent ;  "  but  in  truth  I  have  already 
"  determined  where  I  fhall  lodge  :  even  where 
"  myanceftors  have  been  hofpitably  entertain- 
%  ed  before  me  ;  where  I  know  that  the  laws 
«  of  my  Prince  are  more  refpecled  than  in -any 
*  other  quarter  of  the  town ;  where  his  flatutes 
«  are  preferved  in  their  greateft  purity ;  and 


(     i«3    ) 

*  where  the  mcfl  vifible  marks  of  his  favour 
"  have  for  ages  been  bellowed.  If  all  places 
"  are  as  indifferent  to  you  as  you  alTert  them  to 
"  be,  you  will  do  better  to  accompany  me  to 
"  the  lodging  which  I  have   chofen,  than  to 

*  wander  idly  about  in  fearch  of  another,  with- 
"  out  any  preference  to  direcl  your  choice." 

But  to  this  Mr.  Cofmopolitan  made  no  reply ; 
fo  as  they  were  now  come  to  the  entrance 
of  the  town,  they  parted  ;  and  Good-intent 
went  to  Britain-row,  where  he  was  received 
and  entertained  by  fome  of  the  defendants  of 
him  with  whom,  in  former  ages,  CbriJHana, 
by  the  recommendation  of  her  guide,  Mr. 
Great-heart,  had  taken  up  her  abode.  But 
as  for  Mr.  Cofmopolitan,  he  wandered  about 
from  one  flreet  to  another,  not  occupying  him- 
felf  with  any  bufmefs,  and  meeting  with  none 
who  cared  to  hold  any  converfe  with  him  ;  till 
at  lad  the  men  of  the  fa  ir,  fufpe<5Hng  that  he 
was  come  among  them  with  fome  mifchievous 
defign,  had  him  taken  up,  and  would  have  fent 
him  to  prifon  as  a  vagrant,  had  he  not  confef- 
fed  that  he  belonged  to  French-row :  fo  thither 
they  fent  him,  and  there  he  was  glad  to  remain. 

Now  I  faw  in  my  dream,  that  Good-intent 
found  it  to  be  the  pleafure  of  his  King  that 
he  mould  make  fome  flay  in  this  town  of 
Vanity  y  to  the  end  that  through  the  continual 


('i64    ) 

opportunities  which  would  here  occur  to  him  of 
refitting  evil,  and  overcoming  the  wicked  one, 
he  might  perfect  himfelf  in  that  true  righteouf- 
nefs  and  holinefs,  without  which  it  was  not  pof- 
fible  he  mould  be  admitted  into  the  prefence  of 
his  Lord.  And  here  did  he  daily  experience 
the  benefit  of  the  leflbns  which  he  had  receiv- 
ed from  Mr.  Interpreter,  and  from  the  dam- 
fels  of  the  houfe  Beautiful;  for,  as  the  govern- 
or of  this  town  is  the  prince  Beelzebub,  the 
great  enemy  of  pilgrims,  fo  are  there  conti- 
nually aflembled  here  all  things,  great  and 
fmall,  which  may  prove  temptations  to  feduce 
them  out  of  the  way  wherein  they  hitherto  have 
walked,  and  finally  to  difappoint  them  of  the 
heritage  which  they  have  travelled  fo  far  in  the 
hope  to  obtain.  Wherefore,  though  Good- 
intent  would  gladly  have  haftened  forward  to- 
wards the  end  of  his  journey,  yet  did  he  fub- 
mit  to  his  Lord's  will,  na  k  behoved  him,  and 
only  fought  how  he  might  employ  himfelf  dur- 
ing his  appointed  time,  in  the  manner  mod  fuit- 
able  for  one  vvhofe  profeflion  was  pilgrimage. 

Now  the  town  was  at  that  time  in  a  notable 
confufion :  infomuch  that  the  tumult  which 
had  prevailed  in  it,  when  Chriftian  and  faith- 
ful had  paffed  that  way,  was  as  nothing  in 
comparifon  with  the  prefent  commotion.  For 
the  whole  army   fent  forth  by  Mr.  Philofo- 


(    i«5    ) 

pby,  and  led  on  by  Jacobinifm,  its  chief,  had 
entered  it  from  the  mountain  of  Revolution  and 
the  valley  of  Equality  ;  and  though  moftof  the 
men  of  the  fair  had  received  with  open  arms 
thefe  terrible  invaders,  yet  had  not  their  friendly 
dealing  fecured  them  from  the  ruin  and  defla- 
tion which  were  fpread  by  the  Blood-men 
wherever  they  turned  their  courfe.  The  firfl 
occafion  they  found  of  quarrel  with  the  towns- 
men was  concerning  the  fafhion  of  their  houfes, 
which  they  required  them  to  pull  down,  and 
build  up  again  on  a  new  model ;  taking  for  the 
lower  wall  the  tiles  which  now  covered  the 
roofs,  and  laying  the  heavier!:  of  the  prefent 
foundation-ftones  on  the  top  of  all.  Thofe  who 
confented  to  thispropofal  were  for  the  moll:  part 
buried  in  the  ruins  which  enfued ;  and  thofe 
who  declined  it,  however  civilly,  were  mafTa- 
cred  without  mercy.  Neither  did  the  Prince 
Beelzebub  take  any  compafTion  on  the  miferies 
of  his  fubjeds;  for  he  well  knew  that  the  ex- 
tenfion  of  his  empire  was  the  ultimate  end  of 
the  labours  of  Mr.  Philofophy,  with  whofe  at- 
tachment to  his  interefls  he  had  long  been  ac- 
quainted, and  whom  he  was  therefore  well 
Satisfied  to  appoint  his  vicegerent  upon  earth. 

Now  I  faw  that  Jacobinifm,  the  general,  had 
eftablillied  his  head-quarters  in  the  great  and 
wide  ftreet  which  was  called  Frenclwow ;  whi- 


(     166     ) 

ther  he  had  been  particularly  invited  by  certain 
of  the  inhabitants,  with  whom  he  had  been  long 
in  correfpondence  ;  and  he  had  diflributed  his 
troops  in  the  lanes  and  alleys  immediately  ad- 
joining. They  next  took  pofleflion  of  Dutch* 
row,  and,  after  that,  of  many  of  the  other 
principal  ftreets ;  fome  of  the  townfmen  yield- 
ing to  them  without  oppofition,  by  reafon  of 
the  terror  which  was  fpread  by  their  approach ; 
and  others,  who  imagined  themfelves  fafe  be- 
caufe  they  dwelt  at  a  greater  diftance,  omitting 
to  take  fuch  reafonablc  precautions  as  might 
probably  have  fecured  them. 

Yet,  araidft  all  the  ravages  of  the  Blood- 
men,  the  ufual  traffic  of  the  fair  was  in  no  de- 
gree interrupted.  The  kind  of  merchandife 
indeed  was  changed,  mod  of  the  commodities 
which  had  formerly  been  in  requeft  there  being 
totally  deftroyed,  together  with  the  (hops  in 
which  they  had  been  expofed  for  fale  ;  but  new 
merchants  arrived,  who  opened  new  fhops, 
plentifully  (locked  with  wares  of  another  fafhion, 
for  which  they  had  quickly  more  cuftom  than 
ever  their  predecefTors  had  been  able  to  obtain. 
Yet  (till  there  was  nothing  either  bought  or 
fold  in  the  town  but  Vanity  ;  and,  in  my  judg- 
ment, the  new  fhapes  into  which  it  was  manu- 
factured were  not  a  whit  better  than  the  old. 

Of  all  who  were  attacked  by  the  invaders, 


(     i67     ) 

thofe  only  of  the  ftreet  in  which  Good-intent 
had  taken  np  his  lodging  made  any  effectual 
refiilance.  As  foon  as  they  heard  of  their 
approach,  they  erecled  barriers,  and  ftationed 
guards  to  defend  them  ;  and  when  they  found 
that  French-rovo  was  become  the  chief  ftrong- 
hold  of  the  enemy,  they  demolifhed  a  bridge, 
which  had  formed  the  communication  between 
that  quarter  of  the  town  and  their  own,  and  for- 
tified the  banks  of  the  river  over  which  it  had 
been  thrown,  fo  ftrongly,  that  even  the  Blood- 
men  themlelves,  though  they  continually  threat- 
ened it,  durft  not  attempt  the  paffage.  More- 
over many  of  the  mofl  daring  of  the  men  of 
Britain-row  would  often  adventure  themfelves 
in  boats  acrofs  the  river,  and  attack  the  ad- 
vanced-guards of  the  foe  ;  and  fo  fuccefsful 
were  they  in  this  kind  of  warfare,  that  their 
name  became  terrible  abroad,  and  their  riches 
were  increafed  by  the  fpoils  of  their  enemies. 

Neverthelefs,  I  faw  with  furprife,  that  even 
in  Britain-row  there  were  fome  who  had  pri- 
vately entered  into  correfgondence  with  Mr. 
Pbilofiphy ;  who  had  accepted  as  a  gift  his 
magical  glafles,  and  who  waited  only  for  a  fit 
opportunity  to  betray  their  comrades  unto  Ja- 
ifm,  the  captain  of  the  hoft.  iJut  I  truft  chat 
the  CoelejHal  King,  whofe  fubjecls  all  the  bet- 
ter fort  among  them  do  warmly  profefs  them- 


(     «68     ) 

felves,  and  who  has  already  offered  them,  on 
feveral  occafions,  moft  gracious  and  feafonable 
afliftance,  will  continue  to  vouchfafe  unto  them 
his  protection  ;  that  fo  they  may  be  delivered 
out  of  the  dangers  which  thus  clofe  them  in  on 
every  fide  ;  and  that,  afcribing  their  fafety  not 
to  their  own  ftrength,  but  to  his  favour,  they  may 
apply  themfelves  more  heartily  than  they  ever 
hitherto  have  done  to  root  out  all  iniquity  from 
among  them,  and  to  purify  themfelves  unto  him 
as  a  peculiar  people,  zealous  of  good  works. 

While  Good-intent  continued  with  them,  it 
appeared  to  him  that  he  could  in  no  better 
manner  fignalize  his  zeal  for  his  King,  than  by 
affifting  them  to  repel  thofe  who  were  at  once 
his  enemies  and  theirs.  He  accordingly  bore 
arms  among  them  in  many  defperate  battles,  in 
which  he  difplayed  no  lefs  valour  than  his 
great-grandfather  Matthew  had  fhewn,  when 
he  had  fallied  forth  with  Mr.  Great-heart  and 
the  reft,  to  attack  the  bead,  which,  in  their 
time,  had  committed  fuch  havock  in  the  town. 
And  as,inthefe  encounters,  it  was  his  fortune  to 
efcape  all  dangerous  wounds,  fo  alfodid  he  avoid 
falling  into  any  of  the  fnares,  which  were  laid 
for  him  by  thofe  more  dangerous  deceivers,  who 
are  every  where,  but  more  efpecially  in  this 
place,  lying  in  wait  for  pilgrims :  infomuch  that 
he  would  neither  liften  to  the  emiflaries  fent 


(     i69    ) 

forth  by  Mr.  Philosophy;  nor  to  the  Vices, 
who  walked  in  the  train  of  the  Lady  Fashion; 
nor  to  any  of  the  impoftors,  againfl:  whom  he 
had  been  warned  by  the  virgins  Piety,  Pru- 
dence, and  Charity;  neither  could  he  be 
perfuaded  to  purchafe  any  of  the  commodities  of 
the  place;  which  no  man  can  pofTefs  unlefs  he 
confent  to  do  homage  for  them  unto  Beelze- 
bub, the  prince  and  matter  of  the  fair. 

At  laft  the  time  arrived,  when  it  was  permitted 
him  to  fet  forwards  on  his  journey :   fo,   having 
taken  leave  of  the  friends  with  whom  he  had  fo- 
journed,  he  proceeded  on  his  way,  and  foon  came 
to  the  hill  Lucre,  where  one  Self-interest 
fat,  in  the  place  of  Demas,  to  tempt  paffengers 
to  dig  therein  for  forbidden  treafure;  but  Good- 
intent  paid  no  attention  to  his  words,  remem- 
bering the  miferable  fate  of  thofe  who  had  perifhed 
in  the  filver  mine,  in  die  days  of  Christian; 
and    pailing    on,    he   next    reached    the   pleafant 
ftream,  the  waters  of  which  were  fo  refrerhing 
to  weary  pilgrims:   the  /hade  alfo  of  the  fruitful 
trees,  which  were  planted  on  its  banks,  was  very 
delightful  unto  him;  and  he  was  forry  when  he 
found  himfelf  obliged    to  quit  thofe  fields,    and 
to  proceed  along   a   very  rugged   road,   until   he 
came  to  the  (tile  which  led  into  By-path  mea- 
dow. 


1fc;:        (     170    ) 

He  was  careful  not  to  turn  afide  to  go  over  it; 
but  looking  towards  Doubting  caflle,  which  he 
expected  to  find  in  ruins,  he  was  furprized,  and, 
withal,  grieved  to  fee  it  rebuilt,  and  garrifoned  by 
a  company  of  Mr.  Philosophy's  men,  who 
had  feized  it  as  a  citadel,  whence  they  might  the 
more  conveniently  annoy  the  fbepherds  of  the  £)/- 
lettable  Mountains ;  whom  they  hated  with  pecu- 
liar malice,  becaufe  they  were  the  chofen  fervants 
cf  the  Celestial  King. 

As  Good-intent  pa  fled  along,  a  few  darts 
were  (hot  at  him  from  the  caflle  walls  •  but  when 
they  that  were  within  faw  that  he  received  them 
on  the  fhield  of  Faith,  they  were  aware  that 
no  power  was  given  unto  them  to  harm  him ;  (o 
he  went  on,  without  further  moleftation,  and  foon 
arrived  at  the  foot  of  the  Delegable  Mountains. 
But  he  was  much  aghaft,  to  perceive  what  fearful 
ravages  the  army  of  Jacobinism  had  made  in 
the  outfkirts  of  the  pleafant  land ;  and  he  obferved 
that  one  of  the  hills  was  ftrewed  with  the  dead 
bodies  of  the  fliepherds,  who  had  been  ufed  there 
10  pafture  their  flocks,  while  the  flieep^were 
{battered  as  a  prey  to  ravening  wolves. 

His  read,  however,  leading  him  a  different  way, 
he  foon  came  to  the  green  and  cultivated  moun- 
tain, on  which  abode  the  four  fhepherds,  Know- 
ledge, Experience,  Watchful,  and  Sin- 


(     i7i     J 

CERE ;  who  ftill  dwelling  in  the  fame  peace  and 
fecurity  as  in  former  times,  received  and  greeted 
him  kindly;  and  as  it  was  late,  he  gladly  accepted 
the  lodging  they  offered  him.  In  the  morning  he 
told  them  all  that  had  hitherto  befallen  him  on  his 
journey,  and  inquired  of  them  concerning  the  re- 
mainder of  his  way,  in  which  they  belt  knew 
how  to  direct  him. 

Then  I  faw  in  my  dream,  that,  before  they 
would  fuffer  him  to  depart,  they  were  defirous 
to  fhew  him  fome  of  the  rare  things  which  were 
to  be  feen  in  thofe  mountains:  fo  they  led  him 
to  mount  Caution,  mount  Marvel,  mount  Inno- 
cencf,  and  fundry  of  the  oiher  places,  whither 
they  had  formerly  conducted  Christian  and 
Christiana  :  after  which,  as,  while  they  walk- 
ed, they  had  been  talking  of  the  enemies  who 
now  threatened  detbuction  to  all  the  faithful  fer- 
vants  of  the  King  to  whom  thofe  mountains  be- 
longed as  his  peculiar  inheritance,  the  fhepherds 
faid  unto  the  pilgrim,  "  Though  we  know  our- 
•■  felves  to  be,  above  all  others,  the  objects  of  the 
"  fury  of  thofe  mifcreants,  yet  do  we  entertain 
"  no'  fear  of  their  prevailing  againfl:  us.  We  are, 
"  indeed,  as  you  fee  by  our  profeflion,  peaceable 
"  men,  unpra£tifed  in  the  ufe  of  fuch  weapons  as 
M  they  wield  againfl:  us;  but  the  King,  who  is  our 
"  isafler  and  yours,  has  erected  for  our  defence  a 


(     *7*    ) 

9  ftrong  tower,  which  is  built  on  the  higheft  of 
"  our  mountains,  and  commands  all  the  country 
"  round  j  and  as  it  is  plentifully  fupplied  with  alt 
"  manner  of  warlike  (lores,  and  garrifoned  befides 
"  with  the  King's  beft  troops,  our  enemies,  how- 
"  ever  they  may  boaft  at  a  diftance,  dare  not 
"  fhew  themfelves  in  battle-array  within  arrow- 
u  fhot  of  its  walls,  and  we  therefore  dwell  in  fecu- 
41  rity  under  its  protection:  neither  have  we  yet 
"  fuftained  any  injury  from  them,  fave  the  lofs  of 
"  a  few  of  our  hirelings ;  who,  disregarding  our 
*'  cautions,  have  ftrayed  too  far  from  the  tower, 
««  and  whofe  flieep,  being,  through  their  neglecl, 
*'  at  liberty  to  wander  from  their  folds,  have  been 
**  miferably  devoured  by  thofe  grievous  wolves, 
**  which,  at  unawares,  do  from  time  to  time  creep 
"  in  among  us." 

*  But  who,  then,  were  thofe  fhepherds,"  faid 
Good- in  tent,  "  whofe  dwellings  I  beheld,  as 
f  I  came  along,  fo  miferably  deftroyed,  while  their 
«'  own  dead  bodies,  mingled  with  the  carcafes  of 
"  their  fheep,  lay  ftrewed  in  heaps  on  the  ground  ?** 

"  Thofe  were  men,"  faid  Experience,."  who 
«  formerly  were  our  comrades ;  but  who  had  long 
"  fince  quitted  the  paftures  in  which  our  matter 
"  commanded  them  to  feed  his  fheep,  and  built  for 
"  themfelves  other  folds,  and  other  habitations,  on 
«  the  hill  of  Error.     For  a  time,  indeed,  they 


(   m  ) 

**  usurped  authority  over  us ;  and  we  were  weak 
"  enough  to  forfake  our  own  dwellings  at  their 
"  bidding,  and  to  furfer  them  to  lead  aftray  the 
"  flocks  which  were  committed  to  our  care,  even 
4i  as  they  had  led  their  own;  but  one  of  our  nura- 
*'  ber,  who  was  called  Reformation,  happen- 
il  ing  to  light  on  the  ftatute-book  of  our  King, 
"  which  had  long  been  hidden  under  a  heap  of 
!■*  rubbifh,  came  to  the  knowledge  of  the  fault' we 
"  had  inconfiderately  committed,  and  brought  us 
"  back,  with  as  many  as  were  willing  to  follow 
"  him,  to  thefe  Delegable  Mountains,  on  which 
"  our  King  himfelf  had  originally  eftablifhed  us, 
?  and  where  we  have  ever  fince  dwelt  in  fafety 
*'  under  His  mighty  protection ;  while  thofe  from 
<{  whom  we  feparated  ourfelves  have  perifhed  by 
"  the  hands  of  the  Blood-men,  in  the  miferable 
"  manner  you  have  feen.  We  have  heartily 
"  pitied  their  misfortunes,  and  have  afforded  what 
":  a/Iiilance  we  could  to  the  few,  who,  efcaping  the 
"cruelty  of  our  common  enemy,  have  reforted 
"  to  us  for  fhelter;  neither  have  we  borne  in  mind 
"  the  injurious  treatment  which  we  formerly  ex- 
"  perienced  from  them,  nor  rewarded  thetn  as 
"  they  in  old  time  ferved  us;  and  we  hope  that  in 
"  thus  doing  we  have  fulfilled  the  commands  of 
"  our  great  Matter,  who  has  enjoined  us  to  fhevv 
"  hofpitality  to  the  ttranger,  and  to  do  good  to 
0^2 


(    i74    ) 

¥  thofe  who  have  defpitefully  ufed  us  and  perfe- 
"  cuted  us." 

Then  I  faw  that  the  fhcpherds  propofed  to 
conduit  Good-intent  to  the  tower  of  which 
they  had  fpoken ;  and  he  gladly  followed  them 
thither.  Now  it  was  called  the  tower  of  Re- 
vealed'-religion,  and  it  flood  on  the  mountain  of 
Evidence.  So,  when  they  brought  him  to  the 
place,  he  exceedingly  admired  the  ftrength  of  its 
walls,  and  the  wonderful  manner  of  its  architec- 
ture. Then  they  made  him  obferve,  that  though 
the  foundations  were  fuch  as  could  on  no  fide  be 
fhaken,  yet  the  whole  fuper(tru<5ture  of  the  build- 
ing was  fupported  by  two  mighty  pillars,  each 
confiding  of  one  folid  piece  of  adamant.  One  of 
thefe,  which  fronted  the  country  through  which 
he  had  already  pad,  was  called  the  pillar  of  Hif- 
tory;  and  the  other,  which  flood  on  the  fide  that 
looked  towards  the  Celejiial  City,  was  called  the 
pillar  of  Prophecy.  Each  of  thefe  was  curioufly 
engraven  from  the  top  to  the  bottom;  and  the 
fhepherds  having  defired  the  pilgrim  to  examine 
them  attentively,  he  followed  their  directions,  and 
thereby  received  much  edification. 

The  infcriptions  on  the  pillar  of  Hiflory  were 
Tery  legible;  and  Good-intent  read  thereon 
the  ftory  of  all  thofe  events  which  were  recorded 
in  the  book  which  he  carried  in  his  bofom,  in 


(    175    ) 

various  characters,  and  in  many  different  lan^ 
guages;  but  all  agreeing  together  in  the  fame 
purport.  Nay,  fome  of  thofe  infcriptions,  which 
fet  out  with  queftioning  or  denying  the  authority 
of  that  book,  did  finifh  by  recounting  fuch  fa&s 
as  did  the  moft  clearly  eftablifh  its  authenticity; 
thereby  confirming  what  it  appeared  the  intention 
of  their  writers  to  confute.  As  this  feemed  ftrange 
to  Good- intent,  he  afked  the  fhepherds  to 
explain  it  to  him. 

"  Our  King  has  promifed  us,"  anfwered  they, 
i(  that,  while  heaven  and  earth  endure,  this  for- 
"  trefs  (hall  never  be  overthrown.  Yet  do  our 
M  enemies  feed  themfelves  with  the  imagination 
M  that  they  fhall  finally  be  able  to  prevail  againft 
"  it;  and  of  late,  many  of  thofe  who  have  been 
"  inftrucSted  in  the  fchool  of  Mr.  Philosophy, 
'*  have  come  hither  by  night,  while  they  have 
"  fuppofed  we  flept,  hoping  to  efpy  fome  weak 
"  place  in  the  walls,  or  at  leaft  to  find  means  to  de- 
"  ftroy  the  beauty  and  uniformity  of  the  building, 
"  Some  of  thefe  have  attempted  to  efface  the  infcrip- 
"  tions  on  this  pillar,  and  to  write  on  it,  in  their 
"  ftead,  fuch  others  as  mould  be  moft  to  the  diflio- 
"  nour  of  our  King,  and  for  the  furtherance  of  their 
"  own  wicked  defigns ;  but  it  is  the  peculiar  nature 
"  of  the  adamant  of  which  it  is  made,  that  the 
"  words  of  Truth  can  never  be  erafed  from  itf 


(    r?6    )' 

"  fur  face,  nor  thofe  of  Falsehood  pei, 
**.  nendy  engraven  thereon:  wherefore,  all  >ucn 
*'  as  have  hitherto  thus  wrought,  have  derived.|iu 
"  other  fruit  from  their  labours,  than  that  of  ex- 
"  hibiting,  to  all  who  rightly  examine,  the  malice 
"  of  their  own  hearts,  and  their  inability  to  refufe 
"  their  teftimony  to  the  very  truths,  the  memorial 
"  of  which  they  dedre  the  mod  earneftly  to  de- 
"  ftroy.  Unconfcious,  however,  of  the  fecret 
"  power  which  has  thus  difappointed  their  evil 
u  purpofes,  they  have  departed,  boafting  as  though 
"  they  had  obtained  fome  mighty  advantage ;  but 
"  moft  of  them,  in  their  retreat,  have  been  (truck 
"  by  darts,  difeharged  at  them  from  the  garrifon 
"  appointed  to  defend  the  tower,  whereby  they 
t4  have  been  call:  down,  and  have  no  more  been 
"  able  to  faciei,?! 

After  this,  the  ftiepherds  led  the  pilgrim  round 
to  the  pillar  of  Prophecy,  which,  they  told  him 
was  coniiderably  the  moft  ancient  of  the  two, 
though  it  appeared  erected  on  the  foundation  of 
the  other.  When  firft  he  caft  his  eyes  upon  ir, 
he  defpaired  of  being  able  to  comprehend  what 
was  engraven  thereon ;  for  that  pillar  was  not, 
like  the  former,  inferibed  with  legible  characters, 
but  was  covered  with  ftrange  hieroglyphics,  and 
the  likenefTes  of  many  things  which  belonged  both 
to  the  heavens  above,,  and  to  the  earth  beneath, 


I    *71    ) 

"ir  vever,  when  he  had  coniidered  it  awhile,  he 
ly  perceived  that  many  of  thefe  figures  were  re- 
presentations of  the  events  which  he  had  feen  re- 
corded on  the  pillar  of  Hijiory  \  and  continuing  to 
examine  them,  with  the  afliftance  of  the  fhepherdsy 
he  foon  underftood  the  teftimony  which  that  pillar 
alfo  bore  to  the  life  and  doctrines  of  Him,  to 
whom  gave  all  the  prophets  witnefs,  from  the 
foundation  of  the  world.  He  alfo  beheld  there, 
vifibly  depictured,  the  great  revolutions  of  fuch 
ftates  and  empires,  as  had,  from  the  earlieft  ages, 
been  employed,  though  they  themfelves  knew  not 
of  it,  as  inftruments  in  the  hand  of  the  great 
King  of  all  the  univerfe  for  the  accomplifhment 
of  fuch  things  as  He  would  have  done  on  earth. 
Yet  could  not  Good- in  tent  trace  all  the  figures 
with  which  the  pillar  of  Prophecy  was  adorned ; 
for,  from  above  a  certain  height,  they  were  fo 
indiftinft,  and  confufed  one  with  the  other,  that 
he  could  not  with  any  certainty  difcover  what  they 
were  defigned  to  reprefent ;  and  the  top  of  the 
pillar  itfelf  was  entirely  veiled  from  his  fight,  by 
a  cloud  which  refted  on  it,  and  on  which  he  could 
not  fteadily  fix  his  eyes,  by  reafon  of  its  brightness. 
So  he  inquired  of  the  fhepherds  why  the  upper 
part  of  the  pillar  mould  be  covered  with  fuch 
figures  as  he  found  it  impoflible  to  decypher,  and 
its  fummit  be  altogether  bidden  from  his  view,. 


(    i78    ) 

when  all  that  was  engraven  on  the  lower  part  wag 
become,  through  their  affiftance,  fo  intelligible  tt>- 
him. 

"  The  reafon  of  it  is,"  replied  they,  "  that  the 
*  images  of  things  as  yet  not  feen,  which  arc 
"  thofe  on  the  upper  part  of  the  pillar,  are  en- 
u  crufted  with  a  thick  varnifli,  which  is  purpofely 
"  laid  over  them,  and  with  which  even  thofc 
"  which  now  appear  moft  plain  to  you  were  once 
*'  overfpread ;  but,  you  may  obferve,  though  no 
"  man  can  at  prefent  difcern  their  full  form  and 
"  proportion,  yet  many  of  their  ftronger  lines  may 
u  be  clearly  traced  by  the  eye  which  fixedly  re- 
"  gards  them ;  and  more  it  is  not  intended  that  any 
**  fhall  diftinguifh,  till  the  period  when  one  who 
"  is  called  Time,  by  whom  the  cruft  has  been 
*'  already  cleared  away  from  the  lower  part  of  the 
**  pillar,  ihall  in  like  manner  remove  it  from  the 
**  higher;  and' in  this  work  we  have  reafon  to 
"  believe  that  he  is  even  now  engaged;  for  we 
"  have  lately  been  able  to  difcover  the  true  ihapes 
"  of  many  of  the  figures,  which-,  within  the 
**  memory  of  this  generation,  were  no  lefs  indif- 
"  tin£t  than  thofe  beyond  them  It  ill  remain:  even 
"  of  fuch  as  reprefent  to  us  the  diftrefs  of  nations, 
"  and  perplexity  which  are  now  come  upon  the 
"  earth.  As  for  the  cloud  which  relts  on  the 
"  fummit  of  the  pillar,  that  muft  continue  to  veil 


■;  >.?9  ) 

*(  it  until  the  confummation  of  all  things;  when 
"  heaven  and  earth  (hall  pafs  away,  and  death 
"  .{Kail  be  fwallowed  up  in  vi&ory.  And  whereas 
"  you  cannot  now  (ledfaftly  behold  ir,  by  reafon 
"  of  its  brightnefs,  that  is  becaufe  it  is  illuminated 
*'  by  the  rays  of  the  glory  of  the  Celejllal  City, 
"  to  which  we  are  now  exactly  oppofite.  The 
".mitts,  which  continually  afcend  from  the  earth, 
"  prevent  us  from  diftinguifhing  it  while  we 
"  ftand  fo  low,  except  by  the  perfpedVive  glafs 
*(  of  Faith,  through  which  we  (hewed  it  to 
"  Christian,  and  will  now  afford  a  view  of 
•"  it  to  you;  but  at  the  height  to  which  that  pillar 
"  afcends,  the  atmofphere  is  clear,  and  admits  the 
14  pafTage  of  thofe  glorious  beams,  which,  even 
At  reflected  by  the  cloud,  your  mortal  fight  is  too 
"  weak  to  fupport."" 

Then  Good- in  tent  eagerly  a  iked  for  that 
perfpe6live  glafs,  of  the  virtue  of  which  he  had 
long  fince  heard;  fo  they  brought  it  to  him ;  and 
teaching  him  to  reft  it  on  the  bafe  of  the  pillar  of 
Prophecy^  that  it  might  be  kept  the  more  fteadv, 
they  bade  him  look;  when,  though  the  mifts  of 
the  earth  did  ftill  much  obfcure  his  view,  he  was 
able  fo  far  to  penetrate  them,  as  to  difcern, 
through  the  glafs,  and  daikly,  the  Heavenly  City, 
with  that  innumerable  company  of  faints  and  an- 
gels who  dwell  therein.     Then  did  his  heart  even 


(    1 8o    ) 

%urn  within  him  through  eagernefs  to  be  there: 
while  the  feaT  .left  he  Should  not  be  accounted 
worthy  to  become  a  partaker  of  fo  glorious  an  in- 
heritance arifing  in  his  mind,  he  almoft  fainted 
with  the  ftruggle,  and  his  hand  could  no  longer 
iupportthe  glafs  in  the  requifite  direction. 

But  the  ftiepherds  fupported  him,  and  comforted 
him  with  the  examples  of  many,  now  inhabitants 
of  that  bleffed  city,  who,  with  the  fame  fear  and 
trembling  which  had  fallen  upon  himfelf,  had 
finally  worked  out  their  own  falvation;  their 
weaknefs  having  been  made  ftrong  through  faith 
in  Him,  whofe  promifes  had  been  the  rock  of 
their  fure  confidence;  and  when,  by  fuch  dif- 
courfes,  they  had  revived  the  fpirits  of  Good- 
intent,  they  exhorted  him  to  bear  continually 
in  mind  the  heavenly  things  which  they  had  fhewn 
unto  him  ;  and,  remembering  that  all  earthly  things 
fhould  be  diflblved,  to  confider  what  manner  of 
perfon  he  ought  to  be,  in  all  holy  converfation 
and  godlinefs,  through  the  remainder  of  the  pil- 
grimage, to  the  end  of  which  he  was  now  faft 
approaching.  Then,  feeing  that  he  was  impatient 
to  fet  forward,  infomuch  that  in  his  eagernefs  to 
jeach  the  city  of  his  King,  he  had  even  loft  all 
apprehenfion  of  that  deep  and  terrible  river,  which 
he  was  fiift  to  crofs,  they  fuffered  him  to  pro- 
ceed upon  his  journey;   conducting  him  them- 


(     i8i     ) 

felves,  by  the  belt,  paths,  to  the  end  of  their  ter* 
ritory. 

Now,  as  they  went  along,  their  ears  were 
fuddenly  affailed  by  the  ihouts  of  war;  and 
Good-intent,  looking  on  that  fide  on  which 
he  heard  the  noife,  obferved  a  hill,  which  com* 
manded  one  of  the  principal  paffes  of  thofe  moun- 
tains, on  the  top  of  which  there  flood  a  fmall  fort, 
very  ancient ;  and  this  hill  was  befet  around  by  the 
forces  of  all  thofe  who  were  enemies  to  the  King 
of  that  country;  in  front  it  was  attacked  by  the 
army  of  Blood-men,  led  on  by  Jacobinism, 
their  chief  captain,  who  brought  battering-rams 
and  fcaling  ladders  to  take  it  by  ftorm ;  on  one 
fide  a  troop  of  the  followers  of  Fashion  aflailed 
it  from  a  greater  diftance  with  miflile  weapons ; 
and  on  the  other,  Mr.  Philosophy  himfelf,  at 
the  head  of  a  company  of  pioneers,  was  at  work 
on  a  mine,  whereby  he  hoped  to  fap  the  founda- 
tion, and  overthrow  the  walls.  Then  Good- 
intent  inquired  of  the  fhepherds  what  fort  thi* 
was,  and  why  fo  many  foes  did  thus  rancoroufly 
combine  together  againft  it. 
,  *  Becaufe,"  replied  Knowledge,  "they are 
"  aware,  that,  could  they  once  force  that  pals,  a 
"  confiderable  tract  of  the  beft  part  of  our  land 
H  would  lie  open  to  their  ravages,  and  our  fheep, 
"  hearing  no  more  fhe  voice  of  the  fhepherd, 

R 


(       182      ) 

<*  would  flray  from  their  folds  into  the  wHdernefs* 
"  The  hill  on  which  this  fort  (lands  is  called 
u  mount  Sabbath ;  and  we  have  certain  evidence, 
"  that  amidft.  all  the  convulfions  of  nature,  it  has 
"  continued  unmoved,  in  its  prefent  form,  fince 
u  the  creation  of  the  world.  Yet  though  from 
*'  the  firft  it  was  confecrated  ground,  men  had 
"  forgotten  the  refpedt  which  it  behoved  them  to 
"  pay  to  it,  and  had  grievoufly  defiled  it  by  theTir 
"  continual  trefpaffes ;  when,  confiderably  above 
"  three  thoufand  years  ago,  the  fort,  which  you 
"  now  behold,  was  erected  on  it,  being  built 
<*  with  the  fame  ft  one  which  was  ufed  in  making 
"  the  tables  of  the  law;  and  fince  that  time  no 
"  enemies  have  been  able  to  prevail  againft  it. 
"  Once,  it  is  true,  a  former  governor  of  the  fort 
**  prefumptuoufly  raifed  other  walls,  with  itones 
W  hewn  out  of  the  quarries  of  Tradition,  and 
"  enclofed  a  much  Wider  fpace  of  ground,  en- 
«  croaching  on  the  property  of  his  neighbours; 
*'  but  our  Prince  himfelf  threw  down  thofe  walls, 
««  and  placed  in  the  fort  another  governor,  whofe 
"  office  it  is  to  give  reft  unto  the  weary,  to  in- 
"  ftruft  the  ignorant,  to  exhort  the  unliable,  to 
"  affift  the  devotions  of  the  pious,  and  to  fhew 
"  mercy  and  kindnefs,  not  to  men  only  but  even 
"  to  beads.  Though,  therefore,  our  adverfaries 
* cannot  (hake  the  walls  which  our  King  ha* 


(     1*3     )  ^ 

g<  efbbli  fried,  yet,  whenever  by  their  a  {faults  they 
"  interrupt  the  exercife  of  thefe  good  works,  they 
**  grievoufly  injure  the  world,  and  on  their  own 
"  heads  does  the  evil  of  their  defign  finally  re- 
'*  coil;  and  fuch  you-  will  perceive  to  be,  in  fome 
"  meafure,  the  event  of  their  prefent  attempt,  if 
**  you  obferve  a  little  longer." 

Then  Good-intent  fixed  his  eyes  upon  the 
a (Tailants  of  the  fort ;  and  he  faw-  that  the  troops 
of  Jacobinism,  not  being  allowed  to  take  that 
reft  of  which  their  exhaufted  ftrength  had  need, 
many  among  them  fainted  and  expired  through 
excels  of  wearineis;  and  their  general  himfeif  was 
obliged  to  retire,  and  feek  repofe  at  the  houfe  cf 
one  Mr.  Decade,  who  had  ftolen  from  the 
governor  of  the  fort  thofe  refrefhments  which  he 
offered  for  the  entertainment  of  his  gueft.  Mr. 
Philosophy's  chief  pioneer,  whofe  name  was 
Expediency,  not  being  able  to  carry  on  his 
works  without  difturbing  fome  beads  of  burden* 
who  were  lying  under  the  walls  of  the  fort  to  reft 
themfelves  after  fix  days'  labour,  an  ox  turned 
round,  and  gored  him  with  his  horn:  fo  he  pe- 
ddled; and  the  earth  falling  in  upon  his  compa- 
nions, the  mine  could  not,  at  that  time,  be  con- 
tinued any  farther.  And  as  for  the  votaries  of 
Fashion,  their  darts  were  quickly  exhaufted: 
£o  they  turned  their  backs  at  onse  upon  the  hill> 


(    i84    ) 

and  upon  the  CeUJiial  City,  which  lay  beyond  it, 
and  flattened  back  with  mufic  and  revelry  to  the 
town  of  Vanity >t  from  which  they  caine;  rejoicing 
in  their  idle  mirth,  that,  if  they  could  not  deftroy 
the  fort,  they  at  lead  had  no  longer  a  profpedfc 
of  it ;  and  imagining  they  had  procured  for  them- 
felves  fome  excellent  advantage,  in  renouncing  aH 
/hare  in  the  benefits  which  the  governor  thereof 
perpetually  extended  to  thofe  who  were  within  hi* 
reach. 

The  enemies  on  all  fides  being  thus  difperfed, 
Good-intent  entered  the  fort,  and  partook  of 
fuch  entertainment  as  is  conftantly  provided  there 
at  the  appointed  times  for  all  faithful  pilgrims; 
and  having  (laid  there  a  day  to  rcfrefli  himfelf,  he 
took  a  friendly  leave  of  the  governor,  and  of  the 
fhepherds  (who  gave  him  at  parting  their  cuflo- 
mary  cautions),  and  defcended  into  the  plain  which 
lies  on  the  further  fide  of  the  Delegable  Moun- 
tains: where  he  had  not  walked  far,  before  he 
entered  the  Enchanted  Ground:  in  the  which,  if 
a  man  deep,  he  never  wakes  again. 

The  thick  and  foggy  air  of  that  place  having 
continually  the  quality  of  exciting  drowfmefs, 
Good-intent  foon  began  to  feel  its  influence; 
but  he  remembered  that  the  fhepherds  had  ex- 
prefsly  forbidden  him  to  fleep  upon  that  ground ; 
and  dierefore,  though  he  faw  the  arbours  and 


(    ®s   ) 

benches,  which  the  enemy  of  pilgrims  has- erected 
there  on  every  fide  to  entice  them  to  lie  clown  and 
repofe  themfelves,  he  would  by  no  means  yield  to 
the  temptation,  but  went  on,  though  Come  what 
with  a  heavier  pace; 'and  as  he  waked,  he  ftrove 
to  fix  his  thoughts  upon  the  glorious  view,  which 
he  had  beheld  through  the  glafs  of  the  (hepherds  j 
the  recollection  of  which  foon  enlivened  his  dull 
fpirits,  and  filled  him  with  an  ardour,  which  nei- 
ther the  mifts,  the  darknefs,  nor  the  miry  paths, 
through  which  he  pafled,  had  any  longer  power 
to  quench  or  abate;  and  he  had  now  reached  the 
middle  of  the  Enchanted  Ground^  when  the  ob- 
fcurity  of  the  air  was  fuddenly  broken  by  a  beam 
of  livid  light,  which  call  a  glare  on  every  objcdt, 
yet  feemed  more  difmal  to  the  eyes  of  Good- in- 
tent thaa  even  darknefs  itfelf. 

He  now  perceived  immediately  before  him  a 
vaft  and  gloomy  edifice,  adorned  on  all  fides  wifrh 
fepulchral  emblems,  with  fkulls,  and  bones,  and 
implements  of  death;  a  cadaverous  flench  pro- 
ceeded from  it,  as  from-  a  charnel  vault ;  and 
earth-worms  wreathed  themfelves  round  the  co- 
lumns of  the  portico.  Over  the  door,  in  cha- 
racters of  flame  (whence  proceeded  the  light 
which  had  attracted  the  pilgrim's  eyes),  was  writ- 
ten, "  Eternal  Sleep ;"  but,  on  an  inner  portal 


(     186    ) 


he  defcried  the  darker  infcription,   "  Anmkila* 

Good-intent  flarted  back  with  horror,  fuch 
as  lie  had  never  felt  before,  except  in  the  black 
temple  of  Atheism;  and  while  he  yet  flood 
trembling  and  appalled,  a  company  of  men  ap- 
proached, having  crofled  over  from  another  part 
of  the  Enchanted  Ground  \  and  when  they  came 
near,  he  perceived  that  they  were  of  the  number 
of  Mr.  Philosophy's  difciples.  Now  they  had 
for  their  guide  one  whom  they  had  been  taught  to 
addrefs  by  the  appellation  of  Hope  ;  but  when 
Good-intent  beheld  his  ghaftly  vifage,  he 
knew  him  to  be  the  demon  Despair.  At  their 
approach,  the  gates  of  the  edifice  were  fuddenly 
thrown  open  by  the  grim  porter,  Death;  and 
fome  of  the  troop  entered,  with  pale  countenances 
and  trembling  knees ;  the  gates  fpontaneoufly  re- 
clofed  behind  them ;  and  to  the  reft,  admiflion 
would  at  that  time  have  been  refufed;  but  Self- 
murder  ftepped  forward,  and,  with  a  mafter- 
key,  unlocked  a  poftern-door ;  they  rufhed  madiy 
in,  boafting  with  loud  though  unfteady  clamours, 
the  unconquerable  boldnefs  of  their  daring  minds  : 
but  thefe  exulting  cries  were,  even  in  the  threshold, 
converted  into  the  fhrieks  of  terror  and  the  groans 
©f  anguifli  j  which,  however,  as  the  men  advanced 


(    i87    > 

farther  down  the  darkfome  and  irremeable  cfefcent 
which  lay  before  them,  died  away,  and  were  fuc*. 
ceeded  by  a  filence,  as  of  the  grave — folemn,  pro- 
found, and  drear. 

Despair  then  turned  to  Good-intent,  and 
invited  him  to  enter  alfo.  "  Until  this  enlight- 
*'  ened  age,"  faid  he,  "  the  minds  of  ignorant  and 
"  foolifh  men  were  difturbed,  during  the  whole 
"  of  their  paflage  through  this  world,  by  the 
"  thoughts  of  that  fatal  river,  which  was  to  termi- 
*  nate  their  courfe,  and  over  which,  as,  it  is  well 
"  known,  no  bridge  could  ever  be  built.  Where- 
"  fore  Mr.  Philosophy,  corapaffionating  their 
"  mifery,  has  engaged  the  mighty  power  of  Athe- 
"  ism  to  erecl:  this  vaft  dormitory ;.  in  which  all 
"  who  put  their  truft  in  him  are  free  to  feek  a  re- 
M  fuge  from  the  tyranny  of  Superstition,  and 
"  will  ileep  iecure  from  all  the  terrors  of  Eter- 

"  NITY." 

But  Good- intent  flayed  not  to  hear  him 
farther,  or  to  reply  :  the  afpecl:  of  the  phantom 
who  addrefled  him  had  frozen  the  current  of  his 
blood;  but  at  the  name  of  Atheism,  horror 
jtfelf  rouzed  him  from  the  torpor  which  had  feized 
him ;  and  flying  from  the  difmaJ  manfion  of  thofe 
whofe  hope  as  well  as  their  end  is  deftruclion,  he 
had  no  fooner  pafled  beyond  the  thade  which  that 
building  call  arcuad  it,  than  he  began  tp  defcry,  at 


f     r38     )• 

a  diftance,  a  glimmering  of  the  light  of  the  Celef- 
tial  City ;  and  at  the  fame  time  he  heard  a  voice 
which  proclaimed,  "  Verily  there  is  a  reward  for 
"the  righteous;  doubtlefs  there  is  a  God  that 
"  judgeth  the  earth." 

Infpired  with  redoubled  confidence,  the  pilgrim 
haftened  forward;  and  the  glorious  light  on  which 
his  eyes  were  now  fixed  grew  brighter  and  brighter, 
rill  the  perfect  day  fhined  on  him,  as  he  entered 
into  the  land  of  Reulah  :  that  land  unto  which  no 
enemy  dares-  advance:  where  the  fhining  inhabit- 
ants of  the  Celejlial  City  do  continually  walk, 
comforting  and  refreshing  the  fpirits  of  fuch  as, 
having  finifhed  their  courfe  with  joy,  are  ready 
to  enter*  into  the  falvation  of  their  Lord;  and 
where  even  the  perpetual  expectation  of  being 
called  upon  to  crofs  the  river  of  bitter  waters,  can- 
not difturb  the  felicity  of  thofe  who  hope,  through 
the  mercy  of  their  Prince,  to  be  admitted  into  that 
better  and  heavenly  country,  which  lies  beyond  it. 

Now  I  faw  in  my  dream,  that  Good-intent 
had  not  flaid  here  many  days  before  a  meffenger 
arrived^  who  was  commanded  to  fummon  him  to 
appear  in  the  prefence  of  his  King.  When  he 
received  the  fummons,  he  rejoiced,  though  with 
trembling;  and  one  named  Resignation  con- 
duded  him  to  the  brink  of  the  river,  into  which 
he  entered:   when,  neither  did  he  find  the  bitter- 


(     i89    ) 

nefs  of  the  water  unpalatable  to  him,  nor  did  he 
greatly  fear,  though  the  waves  thereof  did  rage 
and  fwell,  and  the  floods  did  enter  into  his  foul; 
for  Faith  fupported  him  even  in  the  deepeft  part,, 
and  guided  him  through  the  midft  in  fafety ;  but 
when  he  reached  the  oppofite  fhore,  Faith  dhV 
appeared,  and  Certainty  received  him. 

And  now,  his  mortal  garments  having  fallen  ofF 
in  the  river,  he  was  clothed  with  immortality,  and 
appeared  as  one  of  the  fhining  ones ;.  a  band  of 
whom  came  to  meet  him,  and  to  bid  him  welcome 
lo  their  abode.  And  they  laid  unto  him,  "Thou 
"  haft  done  well  in  the  fight  of  thy  Lord,  in  that 
"  thou  haft  preferred  his  word  to  all  the  falfe  and 
"  pernicious  doctrines  of  the  wifdom  of  the  world 
"  thou  haft  quitted;  in  that  thou  haft  rejected  the 
"  pleafures  of  fin,  which  endure  but  for  a  feafon, 
"  looking  in  fincerity  unto  the  Author  and  Finiiher 
"  of  thy  faith,  for  the  fulfilment  of  thofe  promifes 
"  of  which  thou  art  now  become  a  partaker. 
"  Therefore,  the  everlafting  gates  are  open  to 
"  thee;  and  we  are  fent  to  conduct  thee  into  the 
"  prefence  of  the  King  who  fitteth  upon  the 
"  throne  for  ever  and  ever,  by  whom  thou  art 
"  accepted  through  the  merits  of  Him,  who,  by 
"  the  facrifice  of  himfelf  once  offered,  hath  pur- 
"  chafed  univerfal  redemption  for  his  faithful  peo- 
"  pie.     But,   before  thou  {halt  have  q^uite  loft 


(     i9°     ) 

"  light  of  the  fhore  whieh  thou  haft  left  behind 
"  thee,  it  is  permitted  thfce  once  to  look  back,  and 
"  to  behold  what  (hall  be  the  end  of  thofc,  who* 
"  declaiming  the  glorious  inheritance  of  the  chil- 
"  dren  of  God,  have  rather  chofen  to  fay  to 
'*  corruption,  *  Thou  art  my  father;'  and  to  the 
"  worm,  *  Thou  art  my  mother,  and  my  After :' 
"  vainly  trufting  in  their  reprobate  minds  that  they 
"  ftiould  efcape  the  wrath  to  come.'* 

Upon  this,  Good-intent  looked  back;  hav- 
ing from  the  high  bank  on  which  he  flood,  a 
view  of  the  Enchanted  Ground;  and  he  heard  a 
great  and  terrible  fount),  as  it  were  of  a  trumpet; 
and  immediately  the  rocks  were  rent,  and  the 
foundations  of  the  earth  were  difclofed.  Then 
the  dormitory,  which  Philosophy  and  Athe- 
ism had  erected,  was  overthrown,  and  thofe  who 
had  flept  therein  were  awakened;  and  rufhing 
forth  from  amid  the  ruins  with  lamentable  cries, 
they  beheld  him  whom  they  had  pierced,  coming 
in  the  clouds  of  heaven,  as  an  avenging  judge, 
with  power  and  great  glory:  a  flaming  fire  de- 
voured before  him,  and  the  terrors  of  the  Al- 
mighty (hone  round  about  him.  Tlien  did 
they  begin  to  call  upon  the  mountains  to  fall  on 
them,  and  on  the  hills  to  cover  them ;  but  lo !  a 
thick  darknefs  arole  between  ihem  and  the  pilgrim* 
and  he  law  them  no  more  for  evar.. 


(     i9i     ) 

Then  he  turned. to  afcend  the  mountain  upon 
which  the  Celejilal  City  was  built:  his  n£w 
stherial  frame  glowing  with  a  tranfport,  which 
his  earthly  body  would  have  been  too  weak  to 
fupp:.rt.  But  the  light  now  ilreamed  on  him 
with  a  fplendour  fo  dazzling,  that  I  was  no  longer 
able  to  fix  my  eyes  upon  him:  fo,  as  I  turned  to 
Shelter. my  frail  mortal  fenfe  from  the  effulgence 
thereof.  I  awoke,  and,  behold !  it  was  a  dream, 


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